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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 Woodyates

Site number 1049

Burial codes 1003 1004 1009 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1042 1044 1047 1051 1052 1053 1065 1075 1084 1092 1098 1104 1111 1112 1121 1128 1143 1151 1153 1181

100bc-AD43 A settlement occupied from the Late Iron Age to Romano-British times, with a deposit of skull and long bones 'collected and buried' in the ditch. There was also one femur in a pit and skull fragments in pits and drains.

There were 20 complete adult burials including one crouched male pit burial with a Claudian fibula, two fragmentary (?crouched) burials in the enclosure ditch, 6 extended burials in ditch graves and one extended in the enclosure bank. These may be of this period but five other burials were in the Romano-British cemetery enclosure and later.

Remains/Period Y1

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 20

Y coordinate 190

Bibliographic source Pitt-Rivers 1892, Hawkes 1947, Wilson 1981

Query

Site name	Woodyates
Site number	1049
Burial codes	1003 1004 1009 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1042 1044 1047 1051 1052 1053 1065 1075 1084 1092 1098 1104 1111 1112 1121 1128 1143 1151 1153 1181
100bc-AD43	A settlement occupied from the Late Iron Age to Romano-British times, with a deposit of skull and long bones 'collected and buried' in the ditch. There was also one femur in a pit and skull fragments in pits and drains. There were 20 complete adult burials including one crouched male pit burial with a Claudian fibula, two fragmentary (?crouched) burials in the enclosure ditch, 6 extended burials in ditch graves and one extended in the enclosure bank. These may be of this period but five other burials were in the Romano-British cemetery enclosure and later.
Remains/Period	Y1
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	20
Y coordinate	190
Bibliographic source	Pitt-Rivers 1892, Hawkes 1947, Wilson 1981