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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 Haresfield 4, Broadbarrow Green

Site number 341

Burial codes 4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4123 4143 4152 4156 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A round barrow with a pentagonal cist a few feet from the east side, with a burnt earthen floor 10-12cm deep, containing fragments of cremated human skeletal material, and a small very fine oval flint scraper in one corner. This was probably a secondary interment of the Middle Bronze Age. The primary interment may have been in a pit overlooked by the excavator.

Remains/Period Y4

County Gloucestershire

Region SW

National grid square SO

X coordinate 835

Y coordinate 85

Bibliographic source Green 1949a

Query

Site name	Haresfield 4, Broadbarrow Green
Site number	341
Burial codes	4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4123 4143 4152 4156 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A round barrow with a pentagonal cist a few feet from the east side, with a burnt earthen floor 10-12cm deep, containing fragments of cremated human skeletal material, and a small very fine oval flint scraper in one corner. This was probably a secondary interment of the Middle Bronze Age. The primary interment may have been in a pit overlooked by the excavator.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Gloucestershire
Region	SW
National grid square	SO
X coordinate	835
Y coordinate	85
Bibliographic source	Green 1949a