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Site name Plantation Quarry, Willington
Site number 1709
Burial codes 5001 5005 5021 5023 5025 5028 5030 5032 5042 5046 5051 5065 5072 5084 5091 5096 5102 5105 5112 5125 5143 5153 5167 5181 5200 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4045 4051 4065 4075 4092 4098 4104 4106 4112 4128 4141 4153 4181 4200
3500bc - 2500bc A ditched enclosure c25 x 27m on a NE/SW axis, containing a central pear-shaped pit cut into the natural gravel, with a crouched inhumation placed at the north east side, oriented E and accompanied by an antler laid across the lower body. The body was of a female 17-25. Some five small sherds of late Neolithic Peterborough type were recovered from the enclosure and the grave pit.

RC: from human bone OxA-4553 2580 +/- 130
2500bc-14/1300bc A ring ditch c22.5m in diameter, with inside and towards the east 4 post holes in a line NS, and a cremation cut into the ditch fill on the SE side. The cremation was without a container, the pit fill containing a large amount of charcoal as well as silt and cremated fragments of bone. The cremation was of one mature adult.

RC: from charcoal with the cremation [no laboratory reference given] 1460 +/- 60
Remains/Period Y5 Y4
County Bedfordshire
Region SE
National grid square TL
X coordinate 101
Y coordinate 504
Bibliographic source Dawson 1996


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