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Site name | Downside Close, Shoreham-by-Sea |
Site number | 1085 |
Burial codes | 4001 4005 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4071 4084 4091 4098 4102 4107 4126 4129 4143 4153 4159 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A flat grave, roughly circular c1.5m in diameter and almost 2m deep, containing the crouched skeleton of an adult female c50, on its right side, head to N, resting on a bed of flints. Accompanying the burial was a Beaker and the bones of a pig, set down close to the front of the body. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Sussex |
Region | SE |
National grid square | TQ |
X coordinate | 219 |
Y coordinate | 64 |
Bibliographic source | Witten 1978 |
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