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Site name Poole 32, Canford Heath

Site number 736

Burial codes 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4032 4035 4053 4141 4152 4153 4184

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow built on an area stripped of the old ground surface to an almost clean white surface. It covered a central ovoid pit with steep sides which was undisturbed but had never contained a burial. An arc of stake holes was on the north east quadrant mound perimeter, and a line of stake holes joined these from the south east at the eastern point. Weathering may have destroyed the holes in the other quadrants where a ditch like but natural feature followed the mound edge. All stake holes were within the barrow mound and were of two types, round or plank-like in section. A carbonised wooden object was in the body of the barrow 1-2cm above the base in the south west quadrant: it appears to have been a 1.2m long oak tree trunk, but its purpose is obscure.

Remains/Period N4

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SZ

X coordinate 42

Y coordinate 951

Bibliographic source Ashbee 1954b

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Site name	Poole 32, Canford Heath
Site number	736
Burial codes	4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4032 4035 4053 4141 4152 4153 4184
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow built on an area stripped of the old ground surface to an almost clean white surface. It covered a central ovoid pit with steep sides which was undisturbed but had never contained a burial. An arc of stake holes was on the north east quadrant mound perimeter, and a line of stake holes joined these from the south east at the eastern point. Weathering may have destroyed the holes in the other quadrants where a ditch like but natural feature followed the mound edge. All stake holes were within the barrow mound and were of two types, round or plank-like in section. A carbonised wooden object was in the body of the barrow 1-2cm above the base in the south west quadrant: it appears to have been a 1.2m long oak tree trunk, but its purpose is obscure.
Remains/Period	N4
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SZ
X coordinate	42
Y coordinate	951
Bibliographic source	Ashbee 1954b