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Site name Dorchester-on-Thames, Site 1
Site number 870
Burial codes 5001 5005 5021 5023 5025 5028 5030 5032 5042 5045 5051 5065 5075 5084 5092 5098 5104 5108 5113 5129 5143 5153 5181 5200
3500bc - 2500bc A D-shaped enclosure 135m x 53m oriented NW/SE at the southern end of the Cursus (Site 872) and incorporated by it. To the north west it is defined by a short length of causewayed ditch, and to the south east by a slight and shallow curving ditch with a central entrance 2-3m wide.

At the north west end an oval pit F3003 1.5m x 1m was cut by the segmented ditch. It had a black loam fill containing several small splinters of human bone from two persons (one probably a young adolescent), traces of charcoal and wood ash, and a Neolithic flint scraper.

RC: from the human bone OxA-119 2850 +/- 130, from antler at the ditch bottom BM-4225N 2280 +/- 50

[Order suggested by Whittle et al 1992: Dorchester Site VIII, 1, III, XI, II, I, IV, V, VI, 2, 3, XIV, XII, XIII, 4, VII, IX].
Remains/Period Y5
County Oxfordshire
Region SE
National grid square SU
X coordinate 579
Y coordinate 950
Bibliographic source Chambers 1982, Whittle, Atkinson, Chambers and Thomas 1992


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