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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Cassington Mill A

Site number 1016

Burial codes 1001 1003 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1042 1046 1051 1065 1075 1084 1091 1098 1102 1105 1121 1124 1143 1153 1181

100bc-AD43 100 bc -AD43: At the edge of the Iron Age ditched enclosure was an oval pit containing the crouched inhumation of a female c20-25. The body was supine, arms folded over the abdomen, and legs hunched up, left over right. A thin layer of charcoal covered the feet and lower leg, with traces extending westward over the pit bottom. A tiny fragment of bronze wire came from near the left hip, and two small broken flint blades were found below the abdomen. The pit was filled with clean loose gravel and was 1m deep.

Remains/Period Y1

County Oxfordshire

Region SE

National grid square SP

X coordinate 448

Y coordinate 100

Bibliographic source Chambers 1977

Query

Site name	Cassington Mill A
Site number	1016
Burial codes	1001 1003 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1042 1046 1051 1065 1075 1084 1091 1098 1102 1105 1121 1124 1143 1153 1181
100bc-AD43	100 bc -AD43: At the edge of the Iron Age ditched enclosure was an oval pit containing the crouched inhumation of a female c20-25. The body was supine, arms folded over the abdomen, and legs hunched up, left over right. A thin layer of charcoal covered the feet and lower leg, with traces extending westward over the pit bottom. A tiny fragment of bronze wire came from near the left hip, and two small broken flint blades were found below the abdomen. The pit was filled with clean loose gravel and was 1m deep.
Remains/Period	Y1
County	Oxfordshire
Region	SE
National grid square	SP
X coordinate	448
Y coordinate	100
Bibliographic source	Chambers 1977