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Site name Chewton Mendip 34, Ston Easton

Site number 265

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4045 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4143 4152 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc Round barrow whose mound was made of darkish yellow-brown loam. Just to the south west of the centre was a small oval pit 0.6m x 0.45m x 0.15m deep with soft black filling including 4 fragments of calcined human skeletal material, and charcoal of oak and ash. On the old ground surface near the pit were two Bronze Age flint implements. [Williams 1].

Remains/Period Y4

County Somerset

Region SW

National grid square ST

X coordinate 606

Y coordinate 538

Bibliographic source Williams 1947a

Query

Site name	Chewton Mendip 34, Ston Easton
Site number	265
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4045 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	Round barrow whose mound was made of darkish yellow-brown loam. Just to the south west of the centre was a small oval pit 0.6m x 0.45m x 0.15m deep with soft black filling including 4 fragments of calcined human skeletal material, and charcoal of oak and ash. On the old ground surface near the pit were two Bronze Age flint implements. [Williams 1].
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Somerset
Region	SW
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	606
Y coordinate	538
Bibliographic source	Williams 1947a