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Site name Ashville Trading Estate, Abingdon
Site number 1064
Burial codes 3001 3006 3021 3023 3206 3028 3030 3035 3041 3045 3051 3065 3075 3081 3091 3098 3101 3105 3128 3143 3153 3161 3181 2002 2003 2021 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2042 2045 2051 2065 2075 2084 2091 2098 2104 2111 2128 2143 2153 2181 1003 1004 1009 1022 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1043 1047 1051 1065 1071 1075 1084 1092 1098 1101 1104 1107 1108 1109 1110 1111 1128 1143 1151 1153 1181
14/1300bc-8/700bc An isolated pit containing a cremation burial of the upper parts of the body of an adult or adolescent male in an upright bucket urn. The urn is of a type closer to Early Iron Age forms for the area.
8/700bc-100bc An occipital fragment was found in a Phase I pit 79 (c4th Century BC). Unsexed adult tibia were found in pit 72 (c5th-3rd Century BC).
100bc-AD43 In the complex Iron Age and Romano-British settlement there was a single inhumation from the filling of Pit 62, dated to the ultimate pre-Roman phase 3, comprising the skeleton of an adult male c50 oriented N, lying crouched on the left side in the partially filled pit. The feature 'blocks' the entrance to a ditched annexe to a semi-circular enclosure.

There was a fragmentary femur in ditch 392. There were adult unsexed vertebrae in pit 388. The disarticulated bones of an infant and one adolescent were deposited in another pit (69) of the same period. An unsexed and not firmly datable cremation was inside the Late Iron Age enclosure.
Remains/Period Y3 Y2 Y1
County Oxfordshire
Region SE
National grid square SU
X coordinate 483
Y coordinate 973
Bibliographic source Parrington 1978, Wilson 1981, Wait 1985


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