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Site name Steephill B, Ventnor
Site number 1226
Burial codes 1001 1006 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1036 1042 1046 1051 1065 1075 1084 1092 1098 1101 1111 1124 1127 1143 1153 1168 1181
100bc-AD43 The skeleton of an adult male very tightly contracted, as if bound, on the right side, and laid on a rock between other higher rocks. With it was associated 2 sherds of pottery identical to wares from an adjacent Iron Age midden. It was also dated as pre-Roman by a 1st Century Roman cremation jar buried immediately above it.
Remains/Period Y1
County Hampshire
Region S
National grid square SZ
X coordinate 552
Y coordinate 771
Bibliographic source Dunning 1951, Whimster 1981


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