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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 Wilsford (S) 33a, Wilsford Shaft, Normanton Gorse

Site number 84

Burial codes 5005 5022 5023 5025 5028 5030 5035 5065 5143 5166 5184 5200 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4065 4143 4166 4184 4200 2001 2005 2022 2023 2025 2028 2030 2035 2042 2045 2051 2065 2075 2084 2091 2098 2104 2111 2128 2143 2166 2181

3500bc - 2500bc Pond barrow with a central shaft. The well bucket of wood found at the foot of the shaft was dated to the middle Neolithic (OxA-1089). Waterlogged wood from chalk rubble associated with Deverel-Rimbury pottery was dated as NPL-74.

RC: OxA-1089 2690 +/- 70, NPL-74 1380 +/- 90

2500bc-14/1300bc Site overlap with 3500-2500.

8/700bc-100bc Casual human skeletal material of Iron Age date was found at the top of the shaft.

Remains/Period Y2 N5 N4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 109

Y coordinate 415

Bibliographic source Annable 1961, Ashbee 1963a, 1966c, Ashbee, Bell and Proudfoot 1969, 1989

Query

Site name	Wilsford (S) 33a, Wilsford Shaft, Normanton Gorse
Site number	84
Burial codes	5005 5022 5023 5025 5028 5030 5035 5065 5143 5166 5184 5200 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4065 4143 4166 4184 4200 2001 2005 2022 2023 2025 2028 2030 2035 2042 2045 2051 2065 2075 2084 2091 2098 2104 2111 2128 2143 2166 2181
3500bc - 2500bc	Pond barrow with a central shaft. The well bucket of wood found at the foot of the shaft was dated to the middle Neolithic (OxA-1089). Waterlogged wood from chalk rubble associated with Deverel-Rimbury pottery was dated as NPL-74. RC: OxA-1089 2690 +/- 70, NPL-74 1380 +/- 90
2500bc-14/1300bc	Site overlap with 3500-2500.
8/700bc-100bc	Casual human skeletal material of Iron Age date was found at the top of the shaft.
Remains/Period	Y2 N5 N4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	109
Y coordinate	415
Bibliographic source	Annable 1961, Ashbee 1963a, 1966c, Ashbee, Bell and Proudfoot 1969, 1989