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Site name | Dorchester-on-Thames, Site V |
Site number | 1043 |
Burial codes | 5002 5005 5021 5023 5025 5028 5030 5034 5036 5041 5047 5051 5053 5065 5075 5084 5092 5104 5111 5128 5143 5151 5153 5181 |
3500bc - 2500bc | A causewayed cremation cemetery c70m west of Dorchester IV (Site 1042), consisting of a causewayed ditch of 13 roughly oval segments, with an external bank, broken on the NW by a single entrance gap. In the floor of each segment bar three was one hole, two having none and one three. The holes varied greatly in size but none showed traces of having held posts. They were filled with gravel and clay. Within the area enclosed by the bank were 21 deposits of cremated bone representing 22 individuals. 12 were roughly concentric within the central area, 7 were in the upper part of the ditch filling, and 2 just outside the outer lip of the ditch. Seven of those in the central area were in shallow pits, the rest in topsoil. Of the two outside the ditch, one was in a pit, one in the topsoil. There were no grave goods, and the bones were in a compact mass free from charcoal and wood ash. Two sherds found were possibly of Peterborough ware, and there were three antler picks. The ditch had a middle layer filling of fine dark soil as in sites Dorchester II and IV (Sites 142 and 1042) . [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 | 570 |
Y coordinate | 958 |
Bibliographic source | Atkinson 1951a, Atkinson, Piggott and Sanders 1951, Kinnes 1979, Gibson 1992b |
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