Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name City Farm Site 6, Eynsham

Site number 1039

Burial codes 4001 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4091 4098 4104 4111 4124 4143 4152 4153 4154 4160 4161 4181 3001 3005 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3084 3092 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3153 3161 3181

2500bc-14/1300bc A ring ditch or disc barrow with inner (larger) and outer banks, a small central mound and a central pit 6/1. This had contained a cremation, weathered fragments of Wessex biconical urn, fire-altered limestone, charcoal, and a used flint flake. The urn may have been inverted, half in the pit, half in the mound, and packed about with stones from the pyre, of which there were an unusual number. It had been disturbed by cultivation.

14/1300bc-8/700bc There was a second pit 6/2 probably outside the outer bank, containing a Bucket urn, cremated remains and charcoal, found by machine stripping of topsoil.

Remains/Period Y4 Y3

County Oxfordshire

Region SE

National grid square SP

X coordinate 430

Y coordinate 111

Bibliographic source Case, Bayne, Steele, Avery and Sutermeister 1965

Query

Site name	City Farm Site 6, Eynsham
Site number	1039
Burial codes	4001 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4091 4098 4104 4111 4124 4143 4152 4153 4154 4160 4161 4181 3001 3005 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3084 3092 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3153 3161 3181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A ring ditch or disc barrow with inner (larger) and outer banks, a small central mound and a central pit 6/1. This had contained a cremation, weathered fragments of Wessex biconical urn, fire-altered limestone, charcoal, and a used flint flake. The urn may have been inverted, half in the pit, half in the mound, and packed about with stones from the pyre, of which there were an unusual number. It had been disturbed by cultivation.
14/1300bc-8/700bc	There was a second pit 6/2 probably outside the outer bank, containing a Bucket urn, cremated remains and charcoal, found by machine stripping of topsoil.
Remains/Period	Y4 Y3
County	Oxfordshire
Region	SE
National grid square	SP
X coordinate	430
Y coordinate	111
Bibliographic source	Case, Bayne, Steele, Avery and Sutermeister 1965