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Site name Walmer, Deal
Site number 1227
Burial codes 1001 1006 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1042 1046 1051 1065 1072 1084 1091 1098 1102 1111 1112 1122 1143 1153 1181
100bc-AD43 A skeleton of an adult female found extended on the back, oriented head to NE, accompanied by a pair of Late Iron Age shallow spoon-shaped objects of bronze placed on either side of the head. One of them was neatly punched with a small hole at the mid point of one edge as if to regulate the flow of a powder or liquid held in the scoop.
Remains/Period Y1
County Kent
Region SE
National grid square TR
X coordinate 370
Y coordinate 510
Bibliographic source Woodruff 1904, Dunning 1966b, Whimster 1981


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