Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

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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 Hay Wood Cave, Hutton

Site number 1300

Burial codes 1002 1008 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1042 1044 1047 1052 1053 1065 1075 1084 1098 1104 1111 1128 1143 1151 1181

100bc-AD43 A severely disturbed cave deposit revealed three complete and 25 fragmentary skeletons, together with a deposit of 6 human skulls. Many of the bones appear to have been deposited when old and weathered, and were loosely associated with sherds of Iron Age pottery.

Remains/Period Y1

County Somerset

Region SW

National grid square ST

X coordinate 341

Y coordinate 583

Bibliographic source Everton and Everton 1972a, Whimster 1981

Query

Site name	Hay Wood Cave, Hutton
Site number	1300
Burial codes	1002 1008 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1042 1044 1047 1052 1053 1065 1075 1084 1098 1104 1111 1128 1143 1151 1181
100bc-AD43	A severely disturbed cave deposit revealed three complete and 25 fragmentary skeletons, together with a deposit of 6 human skulls. Many of the bones appear to have been deposited when old and weathered, and were loosely associated with sherds of Iron Age pottery.
Remains/Period	Y1
County	Somerset
Region	SW
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	341
Y coordinate	583
Bibliographic source	Everton and Everton 1972a, Whimster 1981