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Site name Wimborne St Giles 24, Oakley Down
Site number 774
Burial codes 4005 4009 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4102 4104 4105 4111 4121 4122 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181 3002 3005 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3092 3098 3101 3104 3108 3110 3111 3128 3143 3152 3161 3181
2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a double or stepped berm, and a low mound of red mould (possibly turf) on which chalk had been scattered. There were two central well cut circular pits 0.4m and 0.45m in diameter, and each 0.6m deep. Pit A contained a large number of cremated bone fragments of an adult and a filling of burnt earth and charcoal fragments. Pit B contained many cremated bone fragments of a young (?)female adult accompanied by a stone bead and a bronze awl, and a filling of burnt earth and charcoal. On top of this pit were a few unburnt bones probably from a different (?)female.
14/1300bc-8/700bc Secondary interments: No 1 was inserted into the primary mound, a Late Bronze Age cinerary urn inverted over a small heap of clean burnt bones of a probable adult male. No 2 was beside No 1 and comprised an urn inverted over a large quantity of clean well burnt bones of a probable adult. No 3 was between the inner and outer berms on the south side of the barrow on the lower slope on the chalk: an urn had been inverted over the heap of clean well burnt bones probably of a young person.
Remains/Period Y4 Y3
County Dorset
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 18
Y coordinate 175
Bibliographic source Anon 1950c, Parke 1953, Grinsell 1959


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