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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 Beaulieu III

Site number 801

Burial codes 4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4169 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a turf mound and ditch upcast along its skirt, and loam over the whole. There was a primary burial of a cremation on the old turf line just north west of the barrow centre, wrapped in moss. A second cremation burial was less well burnt and loosely packed, and deposited just south east of the barrow centre.

Remains/Period Y4

County Hampshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 350

Y coordinate 15

Bibliographic source Piggott 1943

Query

Site name	Beaulieu III
Site number	801
Burial codes	4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4169 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a turf mound and ditch upcast along its skirt, and loam over the whole. There was a primary burial of a cremation on the old turf line just north west of the barrow centre, wrapped in moss. A second cremation burial was less well burnt and loosely packed, and deposited just south east of the barrow centre.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Hampshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	350
Y coordinate	15
Bibliographic source	Piggott 1943