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Site name | Runnymede |
Site number | 1704 |
Burial codes | 2004 2009 2021 2023 2025 2028 2030 2035 2036 2042 2045 2052 2053 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2104 2109 2111 2127 2143 2151 2181 2200 |
8/700bc-100bc | A midden containing (besides pottery, metalwork, animal bone [cattle, pig, sheep, and horse], antler, baked and fired clay, shale, amber, flint, and wood), a large amount of human bone, largely fragmentary. There were 61 contexts for remains, 28 containing pieces of skull, and one containing a neonatal burial. The remains were all found in the matrix of the midden itself, excepting a skull which had been deposited in a pit alongside an entranceway to the site. Within several metres of this deposit, parts of at least two jaws were found. Other identifiable bones include: fragments of ulna, tibia, femur, humerus, pelvis, scapula, vertebra, radius, clavicle, and metapodial. Radiocarbon dating suggests 900-790 CalBC for the earlier phases of the site (c800-600bc) but other evidence may extend use of the site to 600 CalBC (c530bc). RC: from waterfront charcoal deposits HAR-3114 740 +/- 80, HAR-3115 770 +/- 80, HAR-3120 740 +/- 80, site 1 occupation layer HAR-1833 670 +/-70, HAR-1834 800 +/-70, charcoal from pit on site 2 HAR-3112 750 +/- 70, HAR-3113 720 +/- 70 |
Remains/Period | Y2 |
County | Surrey |
Region | SE |
National grid square | TQ |
X coordinate | 50 |
Y coordinate | 730 |
Bibliographic source | Needham and Longley 1980, Needham 1985, Needham and Stig Sorensen 1988, Bruck 1995 |
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