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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Wyboston, Eaton Scocon

Site number 1235

Burial codes 1001 1004 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1036 1042 1046 1051 1065 1075 1084 1092 1098 1102 1111 1127 1143 1151 1181

100bc-AD43 A small settlement site. The skeleton of an adult female was lying tightly contracted near the floor of an Iron Age/Romano-British enclosure ditch extending north from ditch A. The body appeared to have been thrown unceremoniously into the ditch and was surrounded and buried by domestic rubbish including pottery dated to the period AD5-43.

Remains/Period Y1

County Bedfordshire

Region SE

National grid square TL

X coordinate 172

Y coordinate 571

Bibliographic source Tebbutt 1954, 1957, Whimster 1981

Query

Site name	Wyboston, Eaton Scocon
Site number	1235
Burial codes	1001 1004 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1036 1042 1046 1051 1065 1075 1084 1092 1098 1102 1111 1127 1143 1151 1181
100bc-AD43	A small settlement site. The skeleton of an adult female was lying tightly contracted near the floor of an Iron Age/Romano-British enclosure ditch extending north from ditch A. The body appeared to have been thrown unceremoniously into the ditch and was surrounded and buried by domestic rubbish including pottery dated to the period AD5-43.
Remains/Period	Y1
County	Bedfordshire
Region	SE
National grid square	TL
X coordinate	172
Y coordinate	571
Bibliographic source	Tebbutt 1954, 1957, Whimster 1981