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Site name Cissbury Flint Mine
Site number 105
Burial codes 5001 5005 5021 5023 5026 5028 5030 5035 5042 5046 5051 5053 5065 5075 5084 5091 5096 5102 5111 5112 5125 5143 5166 5181 5183 5200
3500bc - 2500bc Flint mine containing the body of a female fallen or thrown into the shaft with infill. Bones of 4 pigs, ox, goat, fox, and roe deer were found with the skeleton.

RC: BM-185 2780 +/- 150, BM-183 2770 +/- 150, BM-184 2700 +/- 150
Remains/Period Y5
County Sussex
Region SE
National grid square TQ
X coordinate 139
Y coordinate 80
Bibliographic source Lane-Fox 1875, Curwen 1937


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