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Site name Dorchester-on-Thames, Site VII
Site number 1045
Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4083 4091 4098 4104 4111 4122 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A bell barrow with ditch, and in the central area three pits, one empty, one containing an unaccompanied cremation, the third containing a cremation with a burnt bronze awl. A small overhanging rim urn stood on a narrow shelf cut at the edge of the pit, and was empty.
Remains/Period Y4
County Oxfordshire
Region SE
National grid square SU
X coordinate 570
Y coordinate 958
Bibliographic source Atkinson 1951a, Atkinson, Piggott and Sanders 1951


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