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Site name | Hoveringham Gravel Pit, Bray |
Site number | 130 |
Burial codes | 5001 5006 5021 5023 5026 5028 5030 5035 5036 5042 5048 5051 5065 5075 5084 5091 5098 5104 5111 5123 5127 5143 5153 5181 |
3500bc - 2500bc | A pit burial. At the top of a black layer, beneath 1.2-1.5m of alluvium, was a fine Neolithic antler comb close to a human skull cap and a broken femur. Possibly associated part of an occipital bone and some Windmill Hill style potsherds were found in the debris beneath the mechanical screening plant of the gravel pit. |
Remains/Period | Y5 |
County | Berkshire |
Region | SE |
National grid square | SU |
X coordinate | 916 |
Y coordinate | 785 |
Bibliographic source | Anon 1964, Kinnes 1979 |
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