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Site name | Dorchester-on-Thames, Site 4 |
Site number | 877 |
Burial codes | 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4091 4092 4098 4104 4111 4112 4122 4124 4128 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | Two conjoined ring ditches placed across the central axis of the cursus, a little to the north west of the long D-shaped enclosure (Dorchester Site 1, Site 870). Ring ditch F1005 originally enclosed an earth mound and had a central pit with the remains of the neck of a collared urn inverted over the cremated bone of an adult accompanied by a fragmentary bronze awl and an unburnt flint flake . RC: from charcoal in the cremation BM-2167R 1740 +/-130 Ring ditch F1004 was an oval annex to the SW. It contained a cremation in the south west quadrant of the much disturbed interior. This comprised a scatter of calcined bone from the cremation of one adult and much charcoal in a very shallow pit. [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 | 579 |
Y coordinate | 950 |
Bibliographic source | Chambers 1982, Whittle, Atkinson, Chambers and Thomas 1992 |
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