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Site name Milton Lilbourne 1, Milton Hill Farm

Site number 444

Burial codes 4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4031 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4102 4104 4105 4109 4122 4130 4143 4152 4153 4181 4200

2500bc-14/1300bc A disc barrow of oval shape with twin mounds oriented NW/SE. The mounds had been destroyed by ploughing and levelling. An oval north west grave contained a heaped cremation of a female c18 with a small bronze awl. The pit infill was of dark charcoal-impregnated loam containing bone fragments, 2 pieces of iron pyrites, flint and chalk, and a sherd of Late Neolithic/Beaker pottery. The circular south east grave had contained a cremation of an infant, with infill similar to that of the other grave.

RC: from the south east grave charcoal HAR-6471 1450 +/- 110

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 199

Y coordinate 579

Bibliographic source Grinsell 1974, Ashbee 1986b

Query

Site name	Milton Lilbourne 1, Milton Hill Farm
Site number	444
Burial codes	4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4031 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4102 4104 4105 4109 4122 4130 4143 4152 4153 4181 4200
2500bc-14/1300bc	A disc barrow of oval shape with twin mounds oriented NW/SE. The mounds had been destroyed by ploughing and levelling. An oval north west grave contained a heaped cremation of a female c18 with a small bronze awl. The pit infill was of dark charcoal-impregnated loam containing bone fragments, 2 pieces of iron pyrites, flint and chalk, and a sherd of Late Neolithic/Beaker pottery. The circular south east grave had contained a cremation of an infant, with infill similar to that of the other grave. RC: from the south east grave charcoal HAR-6471 1450 +/- 110
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	199
Y coordinate	579
Bibliographic source	Grinsell 1974, Ashbee 1986b