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Site name Doone Cafe, Hog's Back
Site number 1503
Burial codes 5001 5005 5021 5023 5026 5028 5030 5035 5042 5046 5051 5065 5075 5084 5091 5098 5104 5111 5128 5143 5166 5181
3500bc - 2500bc A shaft, which appeared to have been dug for flints, contained a skeleton buried beneath the chalk rubble fill. Immediately beneath the skeleton was a single fragment of pottery of gritted ware. Although identified as possibly of Iron Age date, it could be Neolithic A, and the patina on the fractured flint nodules in the fill was similar to that of the flintwork from the lowest levels of the Badshot Lea long barrow (Site 121), and greater than that normally found on Iron Age flints from similar contexts locally.
Remains/Period Y5
County Surrey
Region SE
National grid square SU
X coordinate 860
Y coordinate 478
Bibliographic source Oakley, Rankine and Lowther 1939


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