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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 VI, Cold Pixie's Cave

Site number 804

Burial codes 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4053 4121 4143 4152 4184

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow composed half of turves, half of loam and pebbles. A small empty pit was in the north west quadrant, turfed over prior to the barrow's construction. Near the centre there was an amber necklace, a single string of 18 whole beads, 3 fragments and a flat space bead, clearly not new when buried, and not two strings.

Remains/Period N4

County Hampshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 352

Y coordinate 18

Bibliographic source Piggott 1943

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Site name	Beaulieu VI, Cold Pixie's Cave
Site number	804
Burial codes	4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4053 4121 4143 4152 4184
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow composed half of turves, half of loam and pebbles. A small empty pit was in the north west quadrant, turfed over prior to the barrow's construction. Near the centre there was an amber necklace, a single string of 18 whole beads, 3 fragments and a flat space bead, clearly not new when buried, and not two strings.
Remains/Period	N4
County	Hampshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	352
Y coordinate	18
Bibliographic source	Piggott 1943