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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 Long Crichel 20

Site number 722

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4047 4051 4065 4075 4085 4092 4098 4104 4108 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A round barrow without a ditch covering three roughly scraped out pits. The central pit contained a cremation of a young child with fragments of an Early/Middle Bronze Age urn in the surrounding soil. The second 0.3m to the south was empty. The third 0.3m further south again contained a few fragments of unburnt bone, probably of a male.

Remains/Period Y4

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square ST

X coordinate 960

Y coordinate 105

Bibliographic source Piggott and Piggott 1944

Query

Site name	Long Crichel 20
Site number	722
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4047 4051 4065 4075 4085 4092 4098 4104 4108 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A round barrow without a ditch covering three roughly scraped out pits. The central pit contained a cremation of a young child with fragments of an Early/Middle Bronze Age urn in the surrounding soil. The second 0.3m to the south was empty. The third 0.3m further south again contained a few fragments of unburnt bone, probably of a male.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	960
Y coordinate	105
Bibliographic source	Piggott and Piggott 1944