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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 6, Marleycombe Hill Group

Site number 515

Burial codes 4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4042 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4129 4143 4151 4152 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with an earth mound containing especially on the south and east side very dark earth, and generally fragments of Beaker pottery, Neolithic A sherds, a fragment of Windmill Hill bowl, burnt flints, a sandstone used as a hearth, and a sarsen hammer pebble. There was a central inhumation of two persons and a Beaker, set on the natural chalk with no enclosing cist. The barrow had been disturbed at the centre.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 23

Y coordinate 226

Bibliographic source Clay 1927b

Query

Site name	Bower Chalke 6, Marleycombe Hill Group
Site number	515
Burial codes	4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4042 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4129 4143 4151 4152 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with an earth mound containing especially on the south and east side very dark earth, and generally fragments of Beaker pottery, Neolithic A sherds, a fragment of Windmill Hill bowl, burnt flints, a sandstone used as a hearth, and a sarsen hammer pebble. There was a central inhumation of two persons and a Beaker, set on the natural chalk with no enclosing cist. The barrow had been disturbed at the centre.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	23
Y coordinate	226
Bibliographic source	Clay 1927b