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Site name Salmonsbury, Bourton-on-the-Water
Site number 1191
Burial codes 1006 1009 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1036 1042 1047 1051 1053 1065 1071 1072 1075 1084 1098 1103 1104 1105 1109 1111 1127 1128 1143 1151 1152 1153 1181
100bc-AD43 A 56 acre hill fort occupied between the 2nd/1st Century BC and the 1st Century AD. There were 5 pits with inhumations and 2 burials in graves, as well as scattered bone fragments. Occupation of the site was in two phases, and the pit burials and graves appear to belong to the earlier, from 1st century BC to AD25-40. The period is typified by the use of Glastonbury-Cotswold decorated pottery forms.

Pit A on Site I contained in the filling skeletons of two infants, probably new-born. [2nd-1st Centuries BC].

Pit E on Site I contained an adult female inhumation, no further details known, [2nd-1st Centuries BC].

Pit D on Site II measured 1.72m across x 0.6m deep, and contained the skeleton of an adult female found in the lower filling, crouched on the right side, oriented E. [2nd-1st Centuries BC].

Pit B on Site III contained the skeleton of a young adult female in its filling, crouched on the left side and oriented E, with a flat stone placed at each end of the body. The pit had been cut into the filling of a large ditch of unknown date. [2nd-1st Centuries BC].

Pit B on Site IV contained in its filling the skeleton of an adult sex unknown, crouched on the left side, and oriented E. The burial was partly destroyed by a Roman trench [2nd-1st Centuries BC].

Pit D on Site IV contained in its filling the skeleton of an adult female, crouched on the right side, oriented E, and similarly destroyed in part [2nd-1st Centuries BC].

A shallow grave between Pit E Site III and the ditch on Site II contained the skeleton of an adult male, oriented N, contracted on the right side, legs drawn up tightly to the chest without grave goods. [2nd-1st Centuries BC].

A grave cut into the outer slope of the rampart on Site VII contained the skeleton of an adult, oriented SE, crouched on the right side. There was no dating evidence, but its similarity to others may imply a like date. [2nd-1st Centuries BC?]

There were the following deposits of disarticulated human bone: Phase I infant and adult bones in hut gullies and pits (one adolescent female skull in Hut 1 gully Site IV, unaged and unsexed ribs and vertebrae in Pits D and H on Site I were mentioned) [2nd-1st Centuries BC]; Phase II disarticulated bones of a partial female skeleton (long bones and skull) were scattered over an area 5m x 9m, the long bones apparently broken as if to extract the marrow. The deposit was below an area of paving. [Early 1st Century AD]
Remains/Period Y1
County Gloucestershire
Region SW
National grid square SP
X coordinate 173
Y coordinate 208
Bibliographic source Dunning 1931b, 1976, O'Neil 1978, Whimster 1981, Wilson 1981, Wait 1985


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