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Site name Ward's Combe, Ivinghoe

Site number 1265

Burial codes 1001 1006 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1041 1048 1051 1065 1075 1084 1091 1098 1104 1111 1123 1125 1143 1153 1161 1181

100bc-AD43 Three cremations (Nos 1 and 2 possibly pre-Conquest) were discovered in trenching a small earthwork enclosure comprising a well preserved horse-shoe shaped bank with internal ditch enclosing an area c20m x 40m, open side to the south.

No 1 was in a pit 0.8m x 1m x 0.2m deep, and comprised calcined bone in a large urn on top of which was an iron Colchester brooch. There was also a small jar, a dish, a platter with two sheep or goat ribs and a triangular iron knife.

[No 2 was in a circular scoop 1.5m south of No 1, diameter 0.5m, and comprised calcined bone in a large urn with a bronze post-Conquest Colchester brooch, a small platter and a butt beaker.]

[No 3 was 5m west of No 1, being a cremation in a fragmentary post-Conquest jar.]

Remains/Period Y1

County Buckinghamshire

Region SE

National grid square SP

X coordinate 970

Y coordinate 158

Bibliographic source Matthews 1976, Whimster 1981

Query

Site name	Ward's Combe, Ivinghoe
Site number	1265
Burial codes	1001 1006 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1041 1048 1051 1065 1075 1084 1091 1098 1104 1111 1123 1125 1143 1153 1161 1181
100bc-AD43	Three cremations (Nos 1 and 2 possibly pre-Conquest) were discovered in trenching a small earthwork enclosure comprising a well preserved horse-shoe shaped bank with internal ditch enclosing an area c20m x 40m, open side to the south. No 1 was in a pit 0.8m x 1m x 0.2m deep, and comprised calcined bone in a large urn on top of which was an iron Colchester brooch. There was also a small jar, a dish, a platter with two sheep or goat ribs and a triangular iron knife. [No 2 was in a circular scoop 1.5m south of No 1, diameter 0.5m, and comprised calcined bone in a large urn with a bronze post-Conquest Colchester brooch, a small platter and a butt beaker.] [No 3 was 5m west of No 1, being a cremation in a fragmentary post-Conquest jar.]
Remains/Period	Y1
County	Buckinghamshire
Region	SE
National grid square	SP
X coordinate	970
Y coordinate	158
Bibliographic source	Matthews 1976, Whimster 1981