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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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