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 Winterbourne Stoke 4

Site number 603

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4123 4121 4143 4152 4152 4164 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bell barrow with a cremation placed in a heap in a wooden box oriented NS, 1.05m x 0.6m, which had been put on the old ground surface and covered with a coat of bluish clay. The box possibly had bronze fittings. Accompanying the cremation were 2 bronze daggers, a bone pin (by the cremated bones), and a pair of bone tweezers. Over the blue clay covering the mound was constructed, and near its surface 5 inhumations were found but were undatable.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 101

Y coordinate 417

Bibliographic source Hoare 1812

Query

Site name	Winterbourne Stoke 4
Site number	603
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4123 4121 4143 4152 4152 4164 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bell barrow with a cremation placed in a heap in a wooden box oriented NS, 1.05m x 0.6m, which had been put on the old ground surface and covered with a coat of bluish clay. The box possibly had bronze fittings. Accompanying the cremation were 2 bronze daggers, a bone pin (by the cremated bones), and a pair of bone tweezers. Over the blue clay covering the mound was constructed, and near its surface 5 inhumations were found but were undatable.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	101
Y coordinate	417
Bibliographic source	Hoare 1812