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Site name | Puncknowle 6, Limekiln Hill |
Site number | 744 |
Burial codes | 3005 3009 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 305333065 3075 3084 3092 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181 |
14/1300bc-8/700bc | A bowl barrow with a primary burial of a cremated adult in a bucket urn surrounded by three stone slabs, set in a small pit and sealed with a mound of clay reveted by an outer cairn of stones. The outer mound was of clay. There were 6 secondary burials at the south and west extremes of the mound, 4 cremations, 2 of these not necesssarily human. |
Remains/Period | Y3 |
County | Dorset |
Region | S |
National grid square | SY |
X coordinate | 542 |
Y coordinate | 871 |
Bibliographic source | Grinsell 1959, Greenfield 1984 |
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