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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 Whyteleafe

Site number 1309

Burial codes 5001 5006 5021 5023 5026 5028 5030 5035 5036 5042 5046 5051 5065 5075 5084 5091 5101 5111 5112 5122 5125 5127 5129 5143 5153 5181

3500bc - 2500bc At the bottom of a dome shaped pit dug into the chalk rubble c1.4m deep x 1.2m diameter was a (probably) contracted inhumation of a male adult whose bones bore Neolithic characteristics. There were also animal bones (horse, bos longifrons, small ox, deer, and sheep), and a few Neolithic flint tools (a chisel, a blunt ended arrow head with diagonal butt, 2 triangular and leaf-shaped arrow heads and a roughly triangular saw) in the brown loam fill above the burial deposit.

Remains/Period Y5

County Surrey

Region SE

National grid square TQ

X coordinate 335

Y coordinate 584

Bibliographic source Hogg 1905-06

Query

Site name	Whyteleafe
Site number	1309
Burial codes	5001 5006 5021 5023 5026 5028 5030 5035 5036 5042 5046 5051 5065 5075 5084 5091 5101 5111 5112 5122 5125 5127 5129 5143 5153 5181
3500bc - 2500bc	At the bottom of a dome shaped pit dug into the chalk rubble c1.4m deep x 1.2m diameter was a (probably) contracted inhumation of a male adult whose bones bore Neolithic characteristics. There were also animal bones (horse, bos longifrons, small ox, deer, and sheep), and a few Neolithic flint tools (a chisel, a blunt ended arrow head with diagonal butt, 2 triangular and leaf-shaped arrow heads and a roughly triangular saw) in the brown loam fill above the burial deposit.
Remains/Period	Y5
County	Surrey
Region	SE
National grid square	TQ
X coordinate	335
Y coordinate	584
Bibliographic source	Hogg 1905-06