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Site name Ringwould-with-Kingsdown 1, Dover

Site number 883

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4093 4098 4104 4109 4111 4121 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A slightly oval bowl barrow with an earth and loose chalk capping over a flint layer covering a brick earth inner mound with a loose chalk core. Scattered throughout the mound were the bones and teeth of a horse. Above the flint layer was a cremation unaccompanied by grave goods. Just east of the centre of the barrow floor was a circular chalk-cut pit c0.45m deep containing a primary cremation beneath an inverted collared urn of the secondary series. On the heap of bones covered by this urn were two decorated pygmy vessels, one standing on the other. The larger was a miniature urn or food vessel. The smaller was an incense cup perforated by two small holes near the base, and contained a few fragments of some burnt substance resembling linen. Among the bones were 4 small beads of light green vitreous paste (faience?), one oblate and three segmented.

To the east and south east were three secondary cremations beneath inverted urns in pits. One of these was beneath a Wessex biconical urn containing a slotted incense cup. This cremation was of an infant or young person.

The spaces between the urns and the pit walls were filled up with chalk rubble and flints.

Remains/Period Y4

County Kent

Region SE

National grid square TR

X coordinate 364

Y coordinate 470

Bibliographic source Woodruff 1874, 1877, 1880, Beck and Stone 1936, Butler and Smith 1956, Grinsell 1992

Query

Site name	Ringwould-with-Kingsdown 1, Dover
Site number	883
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4093 4098 4104 4109 4111 4121 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A slightly oval bowl barrow with an earth and loose chalk capping over a flint layer covering a brick earth inner mound with a loose chalk core. Scattered throughout the mound were the bones and teeth of a horse. Above the flint layer was a cremation unaccompanied by grave goods. Just east of the centre of the barrow floor was a circular chalk-cut pit c0.45m deep containing a primary cremation beneath an inverted collared urn of the secondary series. On the heap of bones covered by this urn were two decorated pygmy vessels, one standing on the other. The larger was a miniature urn or food vessel. The smaller was an incense cup perforated by two small holes near the base, and contained a few fragments of some burnt substance resembling linen. Among the bones were 4 small beads of light green vitreous paste (faience?), one oblate and three segmented. To the east and south east were three secondary cremations beneath inverted urns in pits. One of these was beneath a Wessex biconical urn containing a slotted incense cup. This cremation was of an infant or young person. The spaces between the urns and the pit walls were filled up with chalk rubble and flints.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Kent
Region	SE
National grid square	TR
X coordinate	364
Y coordinate	470
Bibliographic source	Woodruff 1874, 1877, 1880, Beck and Stone 1936, Butler and Smith 1956, Grinsell 1992