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Site name Crickley Hill
Site number 30
Burial codes 5004 5021 5024 5025 5028 5030 5035 5036 5053 5065 5122 5125 5184 4005 4007 4021 4023 4025 4028 4209 4032 4053 4065 4125 4184 1001 1005 1022 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1042 1046 1051 1065 1075 1084 1091 1098 1104 1111 1129 1143 1153 1181
3500bc - 2500bc A Neolithic enclosure with inner ditches that had been filled and recut, with evidence of fire, and artefacts and bones scattered at random in ditch fill. The ditches were not filled with domestic debris quite as at Hambledon Hill (Site 55) or Windmill Hill (Site 73). In the second ditch phase an outer ditch was dug 50m beyond the inner ditch, and butchered animal bones placed under slabs at terminals. Inside the enclosure was a rectangular building. A well trodden pathway led to a possible shrine in a natural hollow at the centre of the site. There were 2 clay troughs containing bone, antler, flint, Windmill Hill pottery, and capped by a stone layer. There was also a hearth. No human skeletal material was found.
2500bc-14/1300bc A long mound 100m long x 4m wide, the eastern end built over the razed remains of the Middle Neolithic enclosure. The mound was of soil brought in from a distance (it was not of the site), with limestone slabs laid at intervals along each side. Under some slabs were deposits of animal bones. The eastern terminal was semi-circular, its margin defined by a crescent of cobbling. In the middle of the cobbling was a large post hole. The western end was more complicated - a circular paved area, in the centre of which was a large stone slab.
100bc-AD43 An apparently isolated inhumation burial was found in the 19th Century, accompanied by a number of iron fragments near the head (a facepiece?), and including an iron bracelet on the left wrist like an example from Maiden Castle Fort (Site 1190).
Remains/Period Y1 N4 N5
County Gloucestershire
Region SW
National grid square SO
X coordinate 927
Y coordinate 161
Bibliographic source Dixon 1972, 1976, 1981, 1988, Darvill 1987, Kinnes 1979


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