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Site name Reading Business Park
Site number 1331
Burial codes 3003 3009 3021 3023 3026 3028 3030 3035 3043 3047 3051 3053 3065 3071 3073 3084 3093 3098 3102 3104 3106 3111 3124 3128 3143 3153 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc In Area 7000/III of a settlement focus was an inhumation and two cremations. A crouched burial of an adult female c30 or more was in Pit 7264 at the southern end of the central pit complex. It was on its left side, head to NW, the back, legs and left arm flexed, the left hand being placed under the neck. The pit was 0.8m long on its NW/SE axis x 0.65m x 0.12m deep. Two sherds of Late Bronze Age pottery were in the fill.

A cremation 7181 was found in the southern part of the area, placed in a small hole. The second cremation 7180 was 4m to the north of the first, also in a small hole. Two small sherds of Late Bronze Age pottery were found in the fill. In each case burnt human bone was found in both layers of the fill. The cremations were token amounts of complete adult cremations.

In area 3100 there was an undated grave 3376 c4m south of building 3100. In an oval pit 1m x 0.83m x 0.21m deep was a crouched female inhumation c30 or more, head to SW, on its right side, left hand on the chest, right arm bent with the hand to the shoulder. In assessment trench 3012 a small circular pit contained a cremation 3049 of an adult, in a token amount.

The sites excavated revealed a large collection of round houses and many associated structures. The record does not mention any finds of human bone in any contexts other than those above.
Remains/Period Y3
County Berkshire
Region SE
National grid square SU
X coordinate 701
Y coordinate 696
Bibliographic source Moore and Jennings 1992, Bruck 1995


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