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Site name Letcombe Bassett, Greenwell 290

Site number 852

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with earth and chalk mound, and a central circular grave cut narrow and deep into the chalk, containing an adult cremation (very clean), covered by a pure chalk filling, and then earth and chalk. Some disturbed cremated human skeletal material and a barbed arrow head were scattered over the central area above the primary interment. 2.7m south of the centre on the original surface was a 0.9m long layer of dark 'unctuous' soil containing many ox and pig bones. In the mound were some ox bones and three pot sherds.

Remains/Period Y4

County Oxfordshire

Region SE

National grid square SU

X coordinate 356

Y coordinate 826

Bibliographic source Greenwell 1880

Query

Site name	Letcombe Bassett, Greenwell 290
Site number	852
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with earth and chalk mound, and a central circular grave cut narrow and deep into the chalk, containing an adult cremation (very clean), covered by a pure chalk filling, and then earth and chalk. Some disturbed cremated human skeletal material and a barbed arrow head were scattered over the central area above the primary interment. 2.7m south of the centre on the original surface was a 0.9m long layer of dark 'unctuous' soil containing many ox and pig bones. In the mound were some ox bones and three pot sherds.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Oxfordshire
Region	SE
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	356
Y coordinate	826
Bibliographic source	Greenwell 1880