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Site name Chedworth 1, Chedworth Down (S)

Site number 339

Burial codes 4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4073 4075 4084 4092 4098 4103 4111 4112 4128 4143 4152 4156 4159 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc Stone built round barrow with inner and outer retaining walls. Just east of the centre was a paved stone cist 1.2m x 0.9m oriented E/W containing a primary deposit of 2 crouched skeletons, one with head to the SW, of an adult male and a younger adult female. There were no grave goods. Their skulls of were mesaticephalic (Neolithic/Beaker hybrids?). Some earlier disturbance had occurred.

The barrow was constructed like Burn Ground long barrow (Site 20).

Remains/Period Y4

County Gloucestershire

Region SW

National grid square SP

X coordinate 41

Y coordinate 128

Bibliographic source Grimes 1960a, O'Neil and Grinsell 1960

Query

Site name	Chedworth 1, Chedworth Down (S)
Site number	339
Burial codes	4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4073 4075 4084 4092 4098 4103 4111 4112 4128 4143 4152 4156 4159 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	Stone built round barrow with inner and outer retaining walls. Just east of the centre was a paved stone cist 1.2m x 0.9m oriented E/W containing a primary deposit of 2 crouched skeletons, one with head to the SW, of an adult male and a younger adult female. There were no grave goods. Their skulls of were mesaticephalic (Neolithic/Beaker hybrids?). Some earlier disturbance had occurred. The barrow was constructed like Burn Ground long barrow (Site 20).
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Gloucestershire
Region	SW
National grid square	SP
X coordinate	41
Y coordinate	128
Bibliographic source	Grimes 1960a, O'Neil and Grinsell 1960