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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 Sheards, Shorwell, Isle of Wight

Site number 842

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4102 4107 4128 4143 4152 4153 4160 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a central simple cremation resting on a bed of ashes 1.05m in diameter, the remains of a female c30-40. The cremation appears to have taken place on site and the bones scraped up into a heap then covered by the mound of barrow soil.

Remains/Period Y4

County Hampshire

Region S

National grid square SZ

X coordinate 443

Y coordinate 843

Bibliographic source Morey 1931

Query

Site name	Sheards, Shorwell, Isle of Wight
Site number	842
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4102 4107 4128 4143 4152 4153 4160 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a central simple cremation resting on a bed of ashes 1.05m in diameter, the remains of a female c30-40. The cremation appears to have taken place on site and the bones scraped up into a heap then covered by the mound of barrow soil.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Hampshire
Region	S
National grid square	SZ
X coordinate	443
Y coordinate	843
Bibliographic source	Morey 1931