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Site name | Barnes Urnfield, Isle of Wight |
Site number | 798 |
Burial codes | 3005 3009 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3082 3091 3094 3102 3104 3108 3111 3124 3128 3143 3153 3156 3161 3173 3181 |
14/1300bc-8/700bc | Eleven urns were arranged in a rough circle 3.6-4.5m in diameter with no trace of a barrow. They comprised 1 globular urn, 1 bucket urn, 8 barrel urns, and 1 unknown type. Six were upright and 5 inverted. Contents ranged from a few small pieces of burnt bone (1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9 and 11) to a mass (10), or blackened/charcoal flecked sand (4 and 5). No 8 was possibly of the transitional Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age type from decorative evidence, and otherwise unusual in that it contained 2 unburnt grey flint flakes and was surrounded by a ring of thin slabs of ironstone 13cm square set on end to form a cist - these stones were also burnt. No 9 was a cremation probably of a young female accompanied by a burnt flint. The urnfield extended south west to the cliff edge, and there were fragments of globular, barrel and bucket urns in cliff fall debris. A cremation was set 6m west of the urnfield in a small pocket of burnt sand, on the sandstone bedrock, of an adult with no grave goods. |
Remains/Period | Y3 |
County | Hampshire |
Region | S |
National grid square | SZ |
X coordinate | 450 |
Y coordinate | 850 |
Bibliographic source | Dunning 1931a |
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