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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 Berry Wood, Burley

Site number 809

Burial codes 3002 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3032 3033 3041 3048 3051 3053 3065 3075 3081 3083 3091 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3151 3152 3161 3181

14/1300bc-8/700bc A bowl barrow with a ditch causewayed at the south west and north east. The core of the mound was turves set on the original turf line. The turf mound covered 4 cremations in urns of Deverel-Rimbury type, placed together on the original turf opposite the south west causeway. Three (A, B and D) were barrel or bucket urns, and C was a globular urn. All were inverted except D, a bucket urn. 1.5m to the east was a pit filled with dark silt and sealed with a dark peaty substance, and 0.3m west was a consolidated dark lump containing carbonised wood set on a fine yellow sand layer resting on the old turf line. Gravel and clay covered the core turf mound and there was a loam capping. A turf revetment surrounded the mound edge.

Remains/Period Y3

County Hampshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 238

Y coordinate 25

Bibliographic source McGregor 1962

Query

Site name	Berry Wood, Burley
Site number	809
Burial codes	3002 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3032 3033 3041 3048 3051 3053 3065 3075 3081 3083 3091 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3151 3152 3161 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc	A bowl barrow with a ditch causewayed at the south west and north east. The core of the mound was turves set on the original turf line. The turf mound covered 4 cremations in urns of Deverel-Rimbury type, placed together on the original turf opposite the south west causeway. Three (A, B and D) were barrel or bucket urns, and C was a globular urn. All were inverted except D, a bucket urn. 1.5m to the east was a pit filled with dark silt and sealed with a dark peaty substance, and 0.3m west was a consolidated dark lump containing carbonised wood set on a fine yellow sand layer resting on the old turf line. Gravel and clay covered the core turf mound and there was a loam capping. A turf revetment surrounded the mound edge.
Remains/Period	Y3
County	Hampshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	238
Y coordinate	25
Bibliographic source	McGregor 1962