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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name The Caburn, Glynde

Site number 1296

Burial codes 1003 1009 1021 1023 1025 1028 1030 1035 1036 1043 1045 1048 1051 1065 1075 1084 1092 1098 1101 1104 1111 1127 1129 1143 1151 1152 1153 1181

8/700bc-100bc [Possible overlap site with 100bc-AD43, if the cremation deposit was found under a low barrow as Cunliffe has argued. The earliest site phases date to the 7th or 6th Centuries CalBC, and the vessels are assigned by Cunliffe to the 6th century BC.]

100bc-AD43 A fortified enclosure with inside 147 pits and evidence of structures. A deposit of calcined bone was found with two pottery vessels beneath the primary rampart, but on top of an earlier counterscarp bank. It was sealed by a turf-line from the rampart above.

At the bottom of the roughly square-shaped Pit 80 was an adult male mandible, the pit fill being mould and chalk with sherds, a loom weight, iron dagger blade, quern fragment, and in the upper layer Romano-British pottery.

In the 1877-78 excavations, a human lower jaw was found in the south west corner of Pit 27, with sherds and animal bone. In the outer ditch a right ulna was found, and a femur in Pit 16. [Lane Fox]

Remains/Period Y2 Y1

County Sussex

Region SE

National grid square TQ

X coordinate 444

Y coordinate 89

Bibliographic source Lane Fox 1881, Curwen and Curwen 1927, Hawkes 1939b, Whimster 1981, Bruck 1995

Query

Site name	The Caburn, Glynde
Site number	1296
Burial codes	1003 1009 1021 1023 1025 1028 1030 1035 1036 1043 1045 1048 1051 1065 1075 1084 1092 1098 1101 1104 1111 1127 1129 1143 1151 1152 1153 1181
8/700bc-100bc	[Possible overlap site with 100bc-AD43, if the cremation deposit was found under a low barrow as Cunliffe has argued. The earliest site phases date to the 7th or 6th Centuries CalBC, and the vessels are assigned by Cunliffe to the 6th century BC.]
100bc-AD43	A fortified enclosure with inside 147 pits and evidence of structures. A deposit of calcined bone was found with two pottery vessels beneath the primary rampart, but on top of an earlier counterscarp bank. It was sealed by a turf-line from the rampart above. At the bottom of the roughly square-shaped Pit 80 was an adult male mandible, the pit fill being mould and chalk with sherds, a loom weight, iron dagger blade, quern fragment, and in the upper layer Romano-British pottery. In the 1877-78 excavations, a human lower jaw was found in the south west corner of Pit 27, with sherds and animal bone. In the outer ditch a right ulna was found, and a femur in Pit 16. [Lane Fox]
Remains/Period	Y2 Y1
County	Sussex
Region	SE
National grid square	TQ
X coordinate	444
Y coordinate	89
Bibliographic source	Lane Fox 1881, Curwen and Curwen 1927, Hawkes 1939b, Whimster 1981, Bruck 1995