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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 Ports Down

Site number 835

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4103 4104 4111 4121 4123 4128 4129 4143 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A cremation was contained in a sub-rectangular grave 1.3m x 0.9m dug into the chalk subsoil. Mixed with the unevenly cremated bone and charcoal were 107 discoidal shale beads and 16 graduated amber beads. A conical gold covered shale button (the shale lathe turned) was lying point downwards on top of the cremation debris in the centre of the pit. At the same level against the pit side were the fragments of a complete incense cup. The bones were of two persons, probably a male and a female. 12m south west was a second unaccompanied cremation in a similar chalk cut pit, possibly of a male: surface erosion of the bone suggests a different burial environment from those in the first pit. A similar pit containing fire-cracked flints was mid-way between these. A further probable burial contained a food vessel but had been cut into by an Anglo-Saxon burial.

Remains/Period Y4

County Hampshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 649

Y coordinate 66

Bibliographic source Sargeant 1948, Corney, Ashbee, Evison and Brothwell 1967

Query

Site name	Ports Down
Site number	835
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4103 4104 4111 4121 4123 4128 4129 4143 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A cremation was contained in a sub-rectangular grave 1.3m x 0.9m dug into the chalk subsoil. Mixed with the unevenly cremated bone and charcoal were 107 discoidal shale beads and 16 graduated amber beads. A conical gold covered shale button (the shale lathe turned) was lying point downwards on top of the cremation debris in the centre of the pit. At the same level against the pit side were the fragments of a complete incense cup. The bones were of two persons, probably a male and a female. 12m south west was a second unaccompanied cremation in a similar chalk cut pit, possibly of a male: surface erosion of the bone suggests a different burial environment from those in the first pit. A similar pit containing fire-cracked flints was mid-way between these. A further probable burial contained a food vessel but had been cut into by an Anglo-Saxon burial.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Hampshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	649
Y coordinate	66
Bibliographic source	Sargeant 1948, Corney, Ashbee, Evison and Brothwell 1967