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Site name Barrow Hills Field F4583/F942, Radley
Site number 1055
Burial codes 4006 4009 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4042 4047 4051 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4093 4101 4104 4108 4107 4127 4128 4143 4153 4162 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A large circular pit of 5m diameter and c60m SSW of Barrow 14 (Site 1048), in whose upper fill at the pit centre was a fragmentary inhumation F4583 comprising a skull and four limbs, some of the larger shaft bones appearing to have been cut in two, and belonging to a male c40-50. This deposit may have been bagged.

An unaccompanied crouched inhumation F942 of a young person c13-15 lay against the NW edge of the pit. The pit fill contained domestic material: animal bones, waste flint flakes, a Late Neolithic transverse arrow head, a barbed and tanged arrow head, and fragments of Beaker pottery. A spread of charcoal lay against the fragmentary burial. Below these deposits was a further spread of charcoal, associated with a fairly dense scatter of bones, including animal bones, and further human bone fragments - part of a pelvis and the severed upper end of a thigh bone.
Remains/Period Y4
County Berkshire
Region SE
National grid square SU
X coordinate 513
Y coordinate 981
Bibliographic source Bradley, Chambers and Halpin 1984


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