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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 36

Site number 610

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4042 4044 4047 4051 4052 4053 4065 4073 4084 4098 4104 4111 4125 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with the floor covered in a layer of flints mixed with black earth. The barrow floor had been excavated by 'channels', one of which was connected with a pit containing an inhumation oriented SN. Another channel contained a large branch of stag's horn, and in a little corner was a small deposit of mixed broken bone and earth. By the skeleton's feet was a small pile of very small bones of mice or birds.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 102

Y coordinate 434

Bibliographic source Hoare 1812

Query

Site name	Winterbourne Stoke 36
Site number	610
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4042 4044 4047 4051 4052 4053 4065 4073 4084 4098 4104 4111 4125 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with the floor covered in a layer of flints mixed with black earth. The barrow floor had been excavated by 'channels', one of which was connected with a pit containing an inhumation oriented SN. Another channel contained a large branch of stag's horn, and in a little corner was a small deposit of mixed broken bone and earth. By the skeleton's feet was a small pile of very small bones of mice or birds.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	102
Y coordinate	434
Bibliographic source	Hoare 1812