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Site name Colbury Barrow

Site number 816

Burial codes 3002 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3053 3065 3075 3081 3083 3091 3098 3102 3104 3105 3108 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3173 3181

14/1300bc-8/700bc A bowl barrow with a shallow outer ditch, the mound set on the old ground surface which was pitted in the southern half by irregular hollows containing burnt soil and charred wood. The mound was of soft sand irregularly laid, covered by white sand with pebbles and dark brown peaty sand, also irregularly laid, over which there was a layer of black or dark green sand in which the cremations were set. There were 39 cremations, 26 in urns and 13 others probably formerly contained in urns removed by denudation of the barrow. All but two urns were inverted, and all contained partially burnt bones and pieces of skull, fibrous material and pebbles split by heat. Some breakages of urns had occurred on deposition. The urns were mostly bucket urns, with some barrel urn fragments, but no globular urns. They were in the main poorly, even hastily made. Urn 9 contained cremated remains of a child of c2, a child of c9, and an adult. Urn 36 contained cremated remains of a female c20 or more.

Remains/Period Y3

County Hampshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 340

Y coordinate 100

Bibliographic source Preston and Hawkes 1933

Query

Site name	Colbury Barrow
Site number	816
Burial codes	3002 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3053 3065 3075 3081 3083 3091 3098 3102 3104 3105 3108 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3173 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc	A bowl barrow with a shallow outer ditch, the mound set on the old ground surface which was pitted in the southern half by irregular hollows containing burnt soil and charred wood. The mound was of soft sand irregularly laid, covered by white sand with pebbles and dark brown peaty sand, also irregularly laid, over which there was a layer of black or dark green sand in which the cremations were set. There were 39 cremations, 26 in urns and 13 others probably formerly contained in urns removed by denudation of the barrow. All but two urns were inverted, and all contained partially burnt bones and pieces of skull, fibrous material and pebbles split by heat. Some breakages of urns had occurred on deposition. The urns were mostly bucket urns, with some barrel urn fragments, but no globular urns. They were in the main poorly, even hastily made. Urn 9 contained cremated remains of a child of c2, a child of c9, and an adult. Urn 36 contained cremated remains of a female c20 or more.
Remains/Period	Y3
County	Hampshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	340
Y coordinate	100
Bibliographic source	Preston and Hawkes 1933