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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 Kinson 3

Site number 824

Burial codes 3002 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3083 3084 3092 3098 3104 3108 3109 3110 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3173 3181

14/1300bc-8/700bc A bowl barrow set on the old ground surface with a mound of light brown soil with yellow sand, gravel and silver sand layers. It is uncertain whether there was a central burial, although there was a central circular patch of dark soil about 0.3m in diameter. In the south east quadrant on an arc 6.3m distant from the centre were 11 urns and 3 pits without urns, all dug or set in the natural gravel of the presumed ditch. The ditch was traced in the north west quadrant but tailed off, being untracable from the north eastwards, and from the west southwards. Urns 1, 2, 4, 5, 10 and 11 were barrel urns. Urns 3, 6, 7, 8 and 9 were bucket urns. Urns 4, 6 and 7 were buried upright and set around a heavy vertical slab of local ironstone. Oak charcoal was packed around urns 2, 5 and 8. Urns 3 and 8 were inverted. Urn 5 had been covered with a turf. Pit 12 contained burnt bones and vegetable matter, Pit 13 oak charcoal, and Pit 14 dark soil.

Urn 2 cremation was of an adult, moderately done, and individually collected. Urn 4 contained a probable infant cremation. Urn 5 was a very efficient adult cremation, carefully collected and cleaned. Urn 9 may have been a child cremation. Urn 11 contained a well cremated adolescent, collected up indiscriminately. Pit 12 contained an adult cremation poorly collected.

Remains/Period Y3

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SZ

X coordinate 60

Y coordinate 960

Bibliographic source Knocker 1958

Query

Site name	Kinson 3
Site number	824
Burial codes	3002 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3083 3084 3092 3098 3104 3108 3109 3110 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3173 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc	A bowl barrow set on the old ground surface with a mound of light brown soil with yellow sand, gravel and silver sand layers. It is uncertain whether there was a central burial, although there was a central circular patch of dark soil about 0.3m in diameter. In the south east quadrant on an arc 6.3m distant from the centre were 11 urns and 3 pits without urns, all dug or set in the natural gravel of the presumed ditch. The ditch was traced in the north west quadrant but tailed off, being untracable from the north eastwards, and from the west southwards. Urns 1, 2, 4, 5, 10 and 11 were barrel urns. Urns 3, 6, 7, 8 and 9 were bucket urns. Urns 4, 6 and 7 were buried upright and set around a heavy vertical slab of local ironstone. Oak charcoal was packed around urns 2, 5 and 8. Urns 3 and 8 were inverted. Urn 5 had been covered with a turf. Pit 12 contained burnt bones and vegetable matter, Pit 13 oak charcoal, and Pit 14 dark soil. Urn 2 cremation was of an adult, moderately done, and individually collected. Urn 4 contained a probable infant cremation. Urn 5 was a very efficient adult cremation, carefully collected and cleaned. Urn 9 may have been a child cremation. Urn 11 contained a well cremated adolescent, collected up indiscriminately. Pit 12 contained an adult cremation poorly collected.
Remains/Period	Y3
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SZ
X coordinate	60
Y coordinate	960
Bibliographic source	Knocker 1958