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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 Ogbourne St Andrew 7

Site number 639

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4075 4081 4098 4104 4111 4124 4128 4143 4152 4153 4160 4161 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a small pit overlaid by a partially inverted small collared urn containing burnt human bone. Nearby was a fine flint scraper. The remains of the funeral pyre covered part of the barrow floor. There was a secondary cremation under a layer of small sarsen stones 0.3m above the barrow floor. There was an inhumation just below the central barrow surface but undatable, a leaf arrow head nearby.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 163

Y coordinate 730

Bibliographic source Cunnington H 1881

Query

Site name	Ogbourne St Andrew 7
Site number	639
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4075 4081 4098 4104 4111 4124 4128 4143 4152 4153 4160 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a small pit overlaid by a partially inverted small collared urn containing burnt human bone. Nearby was a fine flint scraper. The remains of the funeral pyre covered part of the barrow floor. There was a secondary cremation under a layer of small sarsen stones 0.3m above the barrow floor. There was an inhumation just below the central barrow surface but undatable, a leaf arrow head nearby.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	163
Y coordinate	730
Bibliographic source	Cunnington H 1881