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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Winterborne Steepleton 4a, North Hill

Site number 778

Burial codes 3005 3009 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3043 3045 3048 3051 3052 3053 3065 3075 3083 3091 3094 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3154 3161 3181

14/1300bc-8/700bc A bowl barrow of chalk and earth mound, with at the centre a flint cairn containing a plain two-lugged (?)Late Bronze Age urn set upright and filled with burnt bone, ash and charcoal over which had been placed an unburnt skull so as to rest on the urn's mouth.

Remains/Period Y3

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SY

X coordinate 630

Y coordinate 900

Bibliographic source Sydenham 1844, Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959

Query

Site name	Winterborne Steepleton 4a, North Hill
Site number	778
Burial codes	3005 3009 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3043 3045 3048 3051 3052 3053 3065 3075 3083 3091 3094 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3154 3161 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc	A bowl barrow of chalk and earth mound, with at the centre a flint cairn containing a plain two-lugged (?)Late Bronze Age urn set upright and filled with burnt bone, ash and charcoal over which had been placed an unburnt skull so as to rest on the urn's mouth.
Remains/Period	Y3
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	630
Y coordinate	900
Bibliographic source	Sydenham 1844, Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959