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MONUMENT NO. 1090982

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Human bones, pottery and flints ploughed up near Windmill Hill in 1891, suggesting disturbance of a burial of probable early Bronze Age date. Suggested to represent the possible site of a ploughed-out barrow, and listed as such by Grinsell as Avebury (or Winterbourne Monkton) 48c.

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According to JW Brooke, in October 1891 some bones were ploughed up on Windmill Hill (precise location uncertain) which, upon inspection, proved to be human. Further investigation at the findspot recovered more bones, a few flints and "some pieces of British ware". Brooke suggested that the finds marked the location of a ploughed out barrow of late neolithic or early Bronze Age date. (1)

Site listed by Grinsell as bowl barrow Avebury (or Winterbourne Monkton) 48c. (2)

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(1) The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine

Brooke, JW. Find of a British Skeleton on Windmill Hill, Avebury. 410-1, 1892 Page(s)26

(2) edited by R B Pugh and Elizabeth Crittall 1957 A history of Wiltshire: volume 1, part 1

The Victoria history of the counties of England Grinsell, LV. Archaeological Gazetteer Page(s)155

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The Neolithic Windmill Hill monument encloses an area of 8.45 hectares, making it one of the largest in England; it was also one of the first to be re...

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