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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 Puncknowle 1

Site number 742

Burial codes 3001 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3083 3092 3098 3104 3106 3128 3143 3152 3153 3154 3160 3161 3181

14/1300bc-8/700bc A bowl barrow with a primary cremation of one adult c30 or less contained in an upright sub-biconical shaped urn supported by stones which had been placed in a small oval shaped pit near the centre of a burnt area (the pyre site?). There was some cremated bone in the pit. The pit was sealed by a horizontal stone slab surrounded by a square shaped emplacement of burnt stone. Over this was a loose stone cairn, and the covering mound comprised brown sandy soil. Some food vessel sherds were on the old land surface of the barrow floor. There was no ditch.

Remains/Period Y3

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SY

X coordinate 533

Y coordinate 878

Bibliographic source Grinsell 1959, Greenfield 1984

Query

Site name	Puncknowle 1
Site number	742
Burial codes	3001 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3083 3092 3098 3104 3106 3128 3143 3152 3153 3154 3160 3161 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc	A bowl barrow with a primary cremation of one adult c30 or less contained in an upright sub-biconical shaped urn supported by stones which had been placed in a small oval shaped pit near the centre of a burnt area (the pyre site?). There was some cremated bone in the pit. The pit was sealed by a horizontal stone slab surrounded by a square shaped emplacement of burnt stone. Over this was a loose stone cairn, and the covering mound comprised brown sandy soil. Some food vessel sherds were on the old land surface of the barrow floor. There was no ditch.
Remains/Period	Y3
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	533
Y coordinate	878
Bibliographic source	Grinsell 1959, Greenfield 1984