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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 Bishops Cannings 49, All Cannings 22, Tan Hill

Site number 565

Burial codes 3001 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181

14/1300bc-8/700bc A bowl barrow with a (?) secondary interment of a large cinerary (Late bronze Age?) bucket urn filled with cremated bone, inverted on a rough flat stone. The urn had been broken and holes bored on each side of the crack to hold the sides together. The interment was 0.3m below the mound surface.

Remains/Period Y3

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 74

Y coordinate 647

Bibliographic source Thurnam 1860b

Query

Site name	Bishops Cannings 49, All Cannings 22, Tan Hill
Site number	565
Burial codes	3001 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc	A bowl barrow with a (?) secondary interment of a large cinerary (Late bronze Age?) bucket urn filled with cremated bone, inverted on a rough flat stone. The urn had been broken and holes bored on each side of the crack to hold the sides together. The interment was 0.3m below the mound surface.
Remains/Period	Y3
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	74
Y coordinate	647
Bibliographic source	Thurnam 1860b