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Site name Ring Ditch 3, Cowdery's Down, Basingstoke

Site number 951

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4102 4107 4121 4129 4143 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A ring ditch with in the northernmost section a grave cut into the bottom of the ditch fill containing a crouched inhumation of an adult female c30-40 facing towards the centre of the ring, and accompanied by three beads at the neck, and a flint blade from behind the spine. The beads comprised a jet toggle and two pestle shaped pendants of shale, and the excavator dates them to 1700-1500 Cal BC. There was stratigraphically later basic Deverel-Rimbury bucket and globular urn pottery in the ditch fill elsewhere in the middle and upper fill of the southern and eastern sides.

Remains/Period Y4

County Hampshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 657

Y coordinate 532

Bibliographic source Millett and James 1983

Query

Site name	Ring Ditch 3, Cowdery's Down, Basingstoke
Site number	951
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4102 4107 4121 4129 4143 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A ring ditch with in the northernmost section a grave cut into the bottom of the ditch fill containing a crouched inhumation of an adult female c30-40 facing towards the centre of the ring, and accompanied by three beads at the neck, and a flint blade from behind the spine. The beads comprised a jet toggle and two pestle shaped pendants of shale, and the excavator dates them to 1700-1500 Cal BC. There was stratigraphically later basic Deverel-Rimbury bucket and globular urn pottery in the ditch fill elsewhere in the middle and upper fill of the southern and eastern sides.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Hampshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	657
Y coordinate	532
Bibliographic source	Millett and James 1983