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Site name Bower Chalke 8, Marleycombe Hill Group

Site number 517

Burial codes 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3053 3065 3081 3143 3151 3154 3184

14/1300bc-8/700bc A bowl barrow with earth mound of topsoil and a large central cairn of flints, c3.6m in diameter. It had been disturbed. There was no sign of a central burial or cist, or of charcoal, ashes or pottery. On the east side of the cairn was a barrel urn, inverted but empty, resting on the natural chalk, and tightly packed around with stones and soil as if a cist. In the barrow mound was a Beaker fragment, a few pieces of sandstone, and a few calcined flints.

Remains/Period N3

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 24

Y coordinate 226

Bibliographic source Clay 1927b

Query

Site name	Bower Chalke 8, Marleycombe Hill Group
Site number	517
Burial codes	3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3053 3065 3081 3143 3151 3154 3184
14/1300bc-8/700bc	A bowl barrow with earth mound of topsoil and a large central cairn of flints, c3.6m in diameter. It had been disturbed. There was no sign of a central burial or cist, or of charcoal, ashes or pottery. On the east side of the cairn was a barrel urn, inverted but empty, resting on the natural chalk, and tightly packed around with stones and soil as if a cist. In the barrow mound was a Beaker fragment, a few pieces of sandstone, and a few calcined flints.
Remains/Period	N3
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	24
Y coordinate	226
Bibliographic source	Clay 1927b