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Site name Ashey Down, Isle of Wight, Barrow 9

Site number 793

Burial codes 4002 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4043 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4181 1001 1005 1022 1023 1025 1028 1030 1035 1042 1046 1051 1065 1071 1084 1098 1102 1108 1113 1128 1143 1152 1181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow comprising a simple mound scooped up from the south east side, capped by a flint nodule layer and a thin chalk overlay. There were two small pits, dug and immediately refilled, incorporating a few flints and animal bone, and two secondary cremations and a secondary inhumation of uncertain date as unaccompanied. The primary inhumation burial was probably destroyed by a robber trench.

The buried land surface contained some Neolithic sherds; and three Beaker sherds were in the mound. Some (?)cinerary urn sherds were in Layer 2, and in the robber trench. 2428 flints were found distributed through the mound, including 2302 waste flakes, 78 fire-cracked and 41 worked flakes.

100bc-AD43 100 bc - AD43 : The secondary inhumation was of an extended (?)female adolescent, oriented NW/SE, head to NW, possibly of pre-Roman Iron Age or Romano-British.

Remains/Period Y4 Y1

County Hampshire

Region S

National grid square SZ

X coordinate 574

Y coordinate 877

Bibliographic source Drewett 1970

Query

Site name	Ashey Down, Isle of Wight, Barrow 9
Site number	793
Burial codes	4002 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4043 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4181 1001 1005 1022 1023 1025 1028 1030 1035 1042 1046 1051 1065 1071 1084 1098 1102 1108 1113 1128 1143 1152 1181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow comprising a simple mound scooped up from the south east side, capped by a flint nodule layer and a thin chalk overlay. There were two small pits, dug and immediately refilled, incorporating a few flints and animal bone, and two secondary cremations and a secondary inhumation of uncertain date as unaccompanied. The primary inhumation burial was probably destroyed by a robber trench. The buried land surface contained some Neolithic sherds; and three Beaker sherds were in the mound. Some (?)cinerary urn sherds were in Layer 2, and in the robber trench. 2428 flints were found distributed through the mound, including 2302 waste flakes, 78 fire-cracked and 41 worked flakes.
100bc-AD43	100 bc - AD43 : The secondary inhumation was of an extended (?)female adolescent, oriented NW/SE, head to NW, possibly of pre-Roman Iron Age or Romano-British.
Remains/Period	Y4 Y1
County	Hampshire
Region	S
National grid square	SZ
X coordinate	574
Y coordinate	877
Bibliographic source	Drewett 1970