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Site name Coneybury Henge
Site number 863
Burial codes 5001 5005 5021 5023 5025 5028 5030 5031 5036 5041 5045 5051 5065 5075 5084 5092 5098 5104 5108 5113 5128 5143 5151 5181 5200
3500bc - 2500bc A henge of oval shape with a single entrance at the NE. The sample excavation of 1980 produced 199 sherds of Neolithic and Bronze Age date (Peterborough, Beaker, grooved ware and Early, Middle and Late Bronze Age urn sherds). In the excavated north ditch terminal there was animal bone, mostly of butchered cattle and pig. In the southern ditch section was a small sample of burnt human bone of one individual c12 or older.

RC: Bone from interior pit OxA-1409 2420 +/- 90, bone from primary ditch fill OxA-1408 2250 +/- 110
Remains/Period Y5
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 134
Y coordinate 417
Bibliographic source Richards 1990


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