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Monument Number 211375
Hob Uid: 211375
Location : Wiltshire Knook
Grid Ref : ST9560044570
Summary : A bowl barrow containing a primary cremation within an inverted urn accompanied by a dagger. (Grinsell's Knook 3).
More information : (ST 95604457) Tumulus (GT) (1) A small low bowl barrow, excavated by Cunnington, 1800, and containing a primary cremation beneath a crushed inverted urn, with a bronze dagger. (2-3) This is a small, well defined bowl barrow 0.8 metres high. Surveyed at 1:2500 (4) No change; report of 13.3.69 correct. (5) Originally recorded as Knook 3 by Goddard. (6) The urn is included within Longworth's corpus of collared urns as no. 1689. (7) Small round barrow, 12m diameter and 0.6m high, lies less than 30m to the W of Knook long barrow (ST 94 SE 18). It appears to have an interrupted ditch on three sides, but part of a field boundary obscures this on the fourth. The site was investigated by RCHME field staff as part of the SPTA project. Further details can be found within the project archive. (8)

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Source details : OS 6" 1961.
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Source details : VCH Wilts 1. 1957, 180 (LV Grinsell)
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Source details : History of Ancient South Wilts. 1, 1812, 83 (R Colt Hoare)
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Source Number : 4
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Source details : F1 ANK 13-MAR-69
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Source details : F2 MJF 27-JUN-75
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Source Number : 6
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Source details : WAM 38, 1913-14, 274 (E.H Goddard)
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Source Number : 7
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Source details : Collared Urns of The Bronze Age in Great Britain and Ireland, 1984, 287 (I. Longworth)
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Source Number : 8
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Source details : D Field/25-1-95/RCHME:SPTA Project
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Bowl Barrow, Cremation, Cinerary Urn
Evidence : Earthwork

Components and Objects:

Period : Bronze Age
Component Monument Type : Bowl Barrow, Cremation, Cinerary Urn
Object Type : DAGGER, VESSEL
Object Material : Pottery

Related Records from other datasets:

External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Wiltshire)
External Cross Reference Number : ST94SE612
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Wiltshire)
External Cross Reference Number : 612
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : WI 863
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 10226
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : ST 94 SE 20
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD SURVEY
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1800-01-01
End Date : 1800-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1969-03-13
End Date : 1969-03-13

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1975-06-27
End Date : 1975-06-27

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 211375