EDO7353 - Pond barrow on Sheep Down, Winterbourne Steepleton; excavation 1950

Excavation by R J C Atkinson in 1950, following excavations by Wakefield in 1947, showed that a pavement of flints gathered from the top-soil largely covered the depression. Beneath and around the pavement were thirty-five pits cut into the chalk subsoil, in some cases through the pavement. Seventeen pits contained Early Bronze Age urns, two held an urn and an inhumation, one held a urn and a cremation, seven contained only cremations, and eight were filled with soil alone. The whole site had been stripped before the pavement was laid, the pits dug, and the bank built.