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Site name Dorchester-on-Thames, Site XIV
Site number 873
Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4101 4111 4128 4141 4151 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A ring ditch consisting of a sub-circular continuous ditch over 20m in diameter, originally with an inner bank or mound. The ditch enclosed 4 small post holes laid out in a square, and a pit directly south of the square. These may predate the bank and ditch. From the lower fill of the ditch came 70 marine shells, and from the upper fill a fragmentary cremation presumed human, and a Group 1 stone axe.

[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 Y4
County Oxfordshire
Region SE
National grid square SU
X coordinate 572
Y coordinate 954
Bibliographic source Whittle, Atkinson, Chambers and Thomas 1992


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