Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

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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 Shrewton 23a, Rolleston Field

Site number 490

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4112 4129 4143 4152 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A banked bowl barrow with a central funeral pyre with ashes, charcoal and some cremated bone still surviving. A small pit in the centre was dug through the pyre into the underlying chalk. An adult cremation was placed in it with a pin. The mound was a turf core set on the old turf surface, capped with chalk from the ditch.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 91

Y coordinate 443

Bibliographic source Green and Rollo-Smith 1984

Query

Site name	Shrewton 23a, Rolleston Field
Site number	490
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4112 4129 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A banked bowl barrow with a central funeral pyre with ashes, charcoal and some cremated bone still surviving. A small pit in the centre was dug through the pyre into the underlying chalk. An adult cremation was placed in it with a pin. The mound was a turf core set on the old turf surface, capped with chalk from the ditch.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	91
Y coordinate	443
Bibliographic source	Green and Rollo-Smith 1984