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Site name The Hamel, Oxford
Site number 1067
Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4036 4042 4046 4051 4065 4073 4084 4092 4104 4108 4113 4127 4128 4143 4153 4181 4200
2500bc-14/1300bc A small steep sided pit (831) 0.65m x 0.7m x 0.4m deep contained pushed into the south west corner the skeleton of a child c2-4. This was crouched, lying on its right side, head to the south east, but twisted backwards to face south west. The fill of the pit was orange brown silt clay with charcoal flecks, and contained Late Beaker pottery, and domestic debris including animal bone and flint flakes. To the south was pit 832, 0.8m x 0.6m x 0.2m deep with the same orange clay fill containing a sherd of pottery.

There appeared to be plough marks among the features at this level on the site.

RC: from human and animal bone HAR-3409 and 3410 combined 1520 +/- 80
Remains/Period Y4
County Oxfordshire
Region SE
National grid square SP
X coordinate 508
Y coordinate 61
Bibliographic source Palmer 1980


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