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Site name Weymouth 8
Site number 758
Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4044 4047 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4105 4111 4122 4123 4125 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4154 4156 4159 4171 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a primary inhumation in a stone cist oriented NS 1.2m x 0.6m x 0.6m with a covering Portland stone slab, set on the chalk floor of a pit 1.8m deep and 3.6m wide at the top, 2.4m wide at the bottom. The pit was filled with chalk rubble and the stone cist contained the disarticulated bones of one person. Above the pit on a level with the old ground surface was built a stone cairn 2.1m high x 3.9m in diameter. In this cairn were a bone dagger pommel, a small perforated stone hammer (seven sided), ox and bird bones, a pot sherd, a double flint saw, a polished flint axe, part of another, many flint scraps and a bone needle.

On top of this cairn was an inhumation surrounded by five protecting stones (part of a skeleton with no vertebrae) in a space 0.9m x 0.45m, representing a person c21, accompanied by a bronze dagger. 0.9m to the south was a cremation comprising fine fragments of burnt bone. These interments were covered by a floor of rough stone slabs. Above this was a layer of rough flints 0.3m thick covered in turn by a floor of rough flat stones topping the whole cairn. About 0.45m below the barrow surface was a cremation accompanied by two bronze daggers with wooden sheaths, an early bronze axe with some fabric adhering, and a fragment of bronze knife dagger, two gold oval shaped ornaments decorated with sets of encircling lines, together making a dagger pommel.
Remains/Period Y4
County Dorset
Region S
National grid square SY
X coordinate 657
Y coordinate 866
Bibliographic source Acland 1915, Drew 1937


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