Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

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Site name Wimborne St Giles 23, Oakley Down

Site number 775

Burial codes 4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4101 4104 4107 4111 4129 4141 4152 4153 4160 4161 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a central primary burial pit containing a collared urn of the second series, with a cremation of two persons including an adult male c50 or more, and accompanied by a pair of bone tweezers. A post hole near the north east edge of the barrow contained charcoal, burnt clay and some scraps of cremated bone of an adult (?)male, and may have been the support post for a cremation pyre. On the opposite side of the ditch at this point was a cremation pit, circular, full of cremated bone and ash. It predated the ditch which the diggers had reduced in width at this point on the cremation pit's discovery to avoid further disturbance. There were two stake structures in the southern quadrant in or over the ditch, the stake holes being dug into the bedrock.

Remains/Period Y4

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 16

Y coordinate 170

Bibliographic source White and Reed 1970

Query

Site name	Wimborne St Giles 23, Oakley Down
Site number	775
Burial codes	4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4101 4104 4107 4111 4129 4141 4152 4153 4160 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a central primary burial pit containing a collared urn of the second series, with a cremation of two persons including an adult male c50 or more, and accompanied by a pair of bone tweezers. A post hole near the north east edge of the barrow contained charcoal, burnt clay and some scraps of cremated bone of an adult (?)male, and may have been the support post for a cremation pyre. On the opposite side of the ditch at this point was a cremation pit, circular, full of cremated bone and ash. It predated the ditch which the diggers had reduced in width at this point on the cremation pit's discovery to avoid further disturbance. There were two stake structures in the southern quadrant in or over the ditch, the stake holes being dug into the bedrock.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	16
Y coordinate	170
Bibliographic source	White and Reed 1970