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Site name Tinker Pit, Salisbury

Site number 1205

Burial codes 2002 2003 2021 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2042 2048 2051 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2104 2111 2112 2128 2143 2153 2181

8/700bc-100bc One of several pits observed during quarrying contained 2 crouched inhumations of (?)adults contracted on their left sides and oriented N, in a figure-of-eight shaped pit, the upper parts of both bodies being covered with large flints.

Remains/Period Y2

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 116

Y coordinate 314

Bibliographic source Musty 1961, Annable 1963, Whimster 1981

Query

Site name	Tinker Pit, Salisbury
Site number	1205
Burial codes	2002 2003 2021 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2042 2048 2051 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2104 2111 2112 2128 2143 2153 2181
8/700bc-100bc	One of several pits observed during quarrying contained 2 crouched inhumations of (?)adults contracted on their left sides and oriented N, in a figure-of-eight shaped pit, the upper parts of both bodies being covered with large flints.
Remains/Period	Y2
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	116
Y coordinate	314
Bibliographic source	Musty 1961, Annable 1963, Whimster 1981