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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 Bower Chalke 1, Woodminton Group

Site number 508

Burial codes 3005 3009 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3093 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3173 3181

14/1300bc-8/700bc A bowl barrow with a possible disturbed primary interment at the centre beneath a flint heap. There were 21 cremations in the south east in three upright globular urns and 18 bucket urns, each regularly spaced c0.75m apart and each probably covered by a flat sandstone or Purbeck slab, in the south west segment of the mound. Each urn was placed in a bowl shaped shallow pit dug into the chalk subsoil through the mound.

Remains/Period Y3

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 0

Y coordinate 221

Bibliographic source Clay 1926a

Query

Site name	Bower Chalke 1, Woodminton Group
Site number	508
Burial codes	3005 3009 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3093 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3173 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc	A bowl barrow with a possible disturbed primary interment at the centre beneath a flint heap. There were 21 cremations in the south east in three upright globular urns and 18 bucket urns, each regularly spaced c0.75m apart and each probably covered by a flat sandstone or Purbeck slab, in the south west segment of the mound. Each urn was placed in a bowl shaped shallow pit dug into the chalk subsoil through the mound.
Remains/Period	Y3
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	0
Y coordinate	221
Bibliographic source	Clay 1926a