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Site name Winterborne St Martin 5c

Site number 779

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4044 4047 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a chalk and earth mound containing scattered fragments of charcoal, black mould and ash, and covering a large circular pit 1.5m in diameter and nearly 1.5m deep. At the bottom were three inhumations deposited with no regularity (implies disarticulated?), covered by a layer of chalk and earth 0.3m thick on which lay another inhumation similarly covered. On that covering was a 5th inhumation, extended. In the mound were two other inhumations. No datable material was found.

Remains/Period Y4

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SY

X coordinate 637

Y coordinate 904

Bibliographic source Sydenham 1844, Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959

Query

Site name	Winterborne St Martin 5c
Site number	779
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4044 4047 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a chalk and earth mound containing scattered fragments of charcoal, black mould and ash, and covering a large circular pit 1.5m in diameter and nearly 1.5m deep. At the bottom were three inhumations deposited with no regularity (implies disarticulated?), covered by a layer of chalk and earth 0.3m thick on which lay another inhumation similarly covered. On that covering was a 5th inhumation, extended. In the mound were two other inhumations. No datable material was found.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	637
Y coordinate	904
Bibliographic source	Sydenham 1844, Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959