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Site name Hurn 1, Christchurch

Site number 819

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a turf mound and a central oval grave pit which was filled with clean gravelly sand. No cremation or inhumation deposit, or accompanying grave goods were found. Acid soil may have destroyed the inhumation. Over the grave pit was a mound of gravel with steep sides and a flat top, the whole compacted and trodden down, and measuring 3m x 1.8m oriented NS. Eight grooved ware related sherds were found in a group in the barrow and some 50 flakes, the collection being Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age. There was a secondary cremation in the north west sector, unaccompanied. Around the core gravel mound there appears to have been a trampled gravel floor.

Remains/Period Y4

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SZ

X coordinate 120

Y coordinate 970

Bibliographic source Piggott 1943

Query

Site name	Hurn 1, Christchurch
Site number	819
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a turf mound and a central oval grave pit which was filled with clean gravelly sand. No cremation or inhumation deposit, or accompanying grave goods were found. Acid soil may have destroyed the inhumation. Over the grave pit was a mound of gravel with steep sides and a flat top, the whole compacted and trodden down, and measuring 3m x 1.8m oriented NS. Eight grooved ware related sherds were found in a group in the barrow and some 50 flakes, the collection being Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age. There was a secondary cremation in the north west sector, unaccompanied. Around the core gravel mound there appears to have been a trampled gravel floor.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SZ
X coordinate	120
Y coordinate	970
Bibliographic source	Piggott 1943