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Site name Bincombe 60c

Site number 669

Burial codes 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4053 4082 4091 4143 4152 4153 4184

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a flint cairn covered by thin rough flat slabs under an earth capping. The cairn centre covered and filled a 0.9m deep pit containing a rectangular cist of 6 stone slabs 1.2m x 0.6m x 0.45m deep, containing only a food vessel laid on its side in the centre. No interments of any kind were found.

Remains/Period N4

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SY

X coordinate 664

Y coordinate 867

Bibliographic source Sydenham 1844, Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959

Query

Site name	Bincombe 60c
Site number	669
Burial codes	4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4053 4082 4091 4143 4152 4153 4184
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a flint cairn covered by thin rough flat slabs under an earth capping. The cairn centre covered and filled a 0.9m deep pit containing a rectangular cist of 6 stone slabs 1.2m x 0.6m x 0.45m deep, containing only a food vessel laid on its side in the centre. No interments of any kind were found.
Remains/Period	N4
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	664
Y coordinate	867
Bibliographic source	Sydenham 1844, Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959