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 Upton Scudamore 1a

Site number 592

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4053 4065 4071 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a pit cut into the floor at the north edge, nearly 1.5m deep, oblong with an inhumation burial of one person, head to N. Below the body a small pit had been dug. 0.75m above the barrow floor was a 'regular floor covered with black ashes'.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square ST

X coordinate 866

Y coordinate 472

Bibliographic source Hoare 1812

Query

Site name	Upton Scudamore 1a
Site number	592
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4053 4065 4071 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a pit cut into the floor at the north edge, nearly 1.5m deep, oblong with an inhumation burial of one person, head to N. Below the body a small pit had been dug. 0.75m above the barrow floor was a 'regular floor covered with black ashes'.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	866
Y coordinate	472
Bibliographic source	Hoare 1812