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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 Amesbury 67b, Earls Farm Down

Site number 1642

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4075 4081 4092 4098 4102 4104 4107 4111 4121 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A disc barrow with a minimal deposit of a primary cremation accompanied by flint flakes and and 3 beads of chalk fossils in a shallow oval pit. 1.5m to the north west was a small pot 10cm high originally inverted.

In the north west sector 3.65m inside the ditch and in an oval pit were two crouched inhumations, of a middle aged female and one of indeterminate sex.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 181

Y coordinate 415

Bibliographic source Grinsell 1974

Query

Site name	Amesbury 67b, Earls Farm Down
Site number	1642
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4075 4081 4092 4098 4102 4104 4107 4111 4121 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A disc barrow with a minimal deposit of a primary cremation accompanied by flint flakes and and 3 beads of chalk fossils in a shallow oval pit. 1.5m to the north west was a small pot 10cm high originally inverted. In the north west sector 3.65m inside the ditch and in an oval pit were two crouched inhumations, of a middle aged female and one of indeterminate sex.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	181
Y coordinate	415
Bibliographic source	Grinsell 1974