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Site name St Margaret's Mead, Marlborough
Site number 1290
Burial codes 1001 1005 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1041 1048 1051 1065 1075 1084 1092 1098 1104 1111 1123 1143 1153 1172 1181
100bc-AD43 A bronze plated bucket of fir wood with three iron bands, a cross-bar and two handles was found containing calcined human bones in 1807. It was plated with thin bronze and ornamented with repoussee human heads and animals. It is dated to the period 50BC-AD40, late La Tene. The Mead where it was found was used for gravel diggings and there were regular finds, particularly of Roman material, and clearly some were inhumation burials.
Remains/Period Y1
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 194
Y coordinate 689
Bibliographic source Hoare 1821, Cunnington W 1887, Stead 1971, Whimster 1981


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