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Site name Ogmore Down, St Bride's Major

Site number 1307

Burial codes 2002 2006 2021 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2042 2046 2051 2065 2075 2084 2098 2104 2111 2123 2143 2153 2181

8/700bc-100bc Two inhumations, the skulls wearing bronze helmets with silver and red enamel decoration, and small bands of twisted gold and silver wire, associated with 2 brass skull-caps, fragments of a bronze chain, and 2 or more barbed daggers.

Remains/Period Y2

County Mid Glamorgan

Region SW

National grid square SS

X coordinate 880

Y coordinate 760

Bibliographic source Francis 1872, Whimster 1981

Query

Site name	Ogmore Down, St Bride's Major
Site number	1307
Burial codes	2002 2006 2021 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2042 2046 2051 2065 2075 2084 2098 2104 2111 2123 2143 2153 2181
8/700bc-100bc	Two inhumations, the skulls wearing bronze helmets with silver and red enamel decoration, and small bands of twisted gold and silver wire, associated with 2 brass skull-caps, fragments of a bronze chain, and 2 or more barbed daggers.
Remains/Period	Y2
County	Mid Glamorgan
Region	SW
National grid square	SS
X coordinate	880
Y coordinate	760
Bibliographic source	Francis 1872, Whimster 1981