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Site name | Sheards, Shorwell, Isle of Wight |
Site number | 842 |
Burial codes | 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4102 4107 4128 4143 4152 4153 4160 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A bowl barrow with a central simple cremation resting on a bed of ashes 1.05m in diameter, the remains of a female c30-40. The cremation appears to have taken place on site and the bones scraped up into a heap then covered by the mound of barrow soil. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Hampshire |
Region | S |
National grid square | SZ |
X coordinate | 443 |
Y coordinate | 843 |
Bibliographic source | Morey 1931 |
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