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Pewsey 4 (Grinsell)
Hob Uid: 918602
Location : Wiltshire Pewsey
Grid Ref : SU1872056670
Summary : A bowl barrow which may have been excavated by Colt Hoare, contained a primary cremation accompanied by grave goods. Excavations in 1958 located an inhumation within a coffin.
More information : SU 18725667. Pewsey 4, a bowl barrow 20 paces in diameter and 2ft high. May have been the barrow excavated by Colt Hoare which contained a primary cremation accompanied with a bronze awl, two shale beads and part of a small cup. Two deposits of ashes were located nearby (See also SU 15 NE 93 and SU 15 NE 94). (1-2) This was one of five barrows excavated in 1958 and found to be a ditchless bowl barrow with a central grave containing traces of a wooden coffin and a disarticulated inhumation. (3) Pewsey 4, a bowl barrow, as described and measured by Grinsell. Surveyed at 1:2500. (4) Originally recorded as Pewsey 4 by Goddard. (5)

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Source details : VCH Wilts. 1. 1957. 187 (L.V Grinsell)
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Source Number : 2
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Source details : History of Ancient South Wilts. 1. 1812, 191 (R. Colt Hoare)
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Source Number : 3
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Source details : Wilts. Archaeol. Natur. Hist. Mag. 57, 1958-60, 231, 339-351 (F. de Mallet Vatcher)
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Source Number : 4
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Source details : F1 JWS 27-MAR-73
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Source Number : 5
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Source details : Wilts. Archaeol. Natur. Hist. Mag. 38, 1913-14. 306. (E.H Goddard)
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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, Inhumation, Coffin
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Period : Bronze Age
Component Monument Type : Bowl Barrow, Cremation, Inhumation, Coffin
Object Type : AWL, BEAD, VESSEL
Object Material : Pottery

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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SU 15 NE 90
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Pewsey 4 (Grinsell)