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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 Middle Farm, Dorchester

Site number 1625

Burial codes 4002 4003 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4042 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4101 4104 4111 4128 4143 4153 4168 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc An Early to Middle Bronze Age enclosure cut at the south and east by a large ditch whose upper fills contained pottery of the period. Inserted into the silted lower fills were at least three trussed burials. One was an adult male with a healed fracture of the left forearm.

Remains/Period Y4

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SY

X coordinate 673

Y coordinate 899

Bibliographic source Woodward and Smith 1987

Query

Site name	Middle Farm, Dorchester
Site number	1625
Burial codes	4002 4003 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4042 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4101 4104 4111 4128 4143 4153 4168 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	An Early to Middle Bronze Age enclosure cut at the south and east by a large ditch whose upper fills contained pottery of the period. Inserted into the silted lower fills were at least three trussed burials. One was an adult male with a healed fracture of the left forearm.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	673
Y coordinate	899
Bibliographic source	Woodward and Smith 1987