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Site name East and West Lockinge

Site number 975

Burial codes 2002 2005 2021 2023 2025 2028 2030 2035 2041 2045 2051 2065 2075 2084 2091 2098 2103 2107 2108 2111 2128 2143 2152 2153 2181

8/700bc-100bc A round barrow with at the centre a simple cremation in a pit dug into the chalk, c0.6m in diameter x 0.4m deep. The remains were of 3 or 4 individuals, a male c40 or more, a female adult, and a child c6-16. There was a certain amount of disturbance to the the barrow which has been attributed to the Middle Bronze Age, but the pottery recorded contained no Bronze Age types, the earliest on the site at the deepest level being Early Iron Age.

Remains/Period Y2

County Oxfordshire

Region SE

National grid square SU

X coordinate 420

Y coordinate 870

Bibliographic source Peake, Coghlan, Bertram Marshall and Birkbeck 1935, Grinsell 1935, 1936a

Query

Site name	East and West Lockinge
Site number	975
Burial codes	2002 2005 2021 2023 2025 2028 2030 2035 2041 2045 2051 2065 2075 2084 2091 2098 2103 2107 2108 2111 2128 2143 2152 2153 2181
8/700bc-100bc	A round barrow with at the centre a simple cremation in a pit dug into the chalk, c0.6m in diameter x 0.4m deep. The remains were of 3 or 4 individuals, a male c40 or more, a female adult, and a child c6-16. There was a certain amount of disturbance to the the barrow which has been attributed to the Middle Bronze Age, but the pottery recorded contained no Bronze Age types, the earliest on the site at the deepest level being Early Iron Age.
Remains/Period	Y2
County	Oxfordshire
Region	SE
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	420
Y coordinate	870
Bibliographic source	Peake, Coghlan, Bertram Marshall and Birkbeck 1935, Grinsell 1935, 1936a