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Site name Battlesbury Camp

Site number 1312

Burial codes 1003 1009 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1042 1047 1051 1065 1073 1084 1092 1098 1104 1111 1121 1128 1143 1152 1153 1181

100bc-AD43 A hill fort with a piece of human radius in a pit. There was also a (possibly extended) burial of two individuals lying S/N as a secondary deposit in a Bronze Age barrow, overlaid by the Iron Age hill fort rampart. One of the bodies (the larger and lower of the two) was accompanied by a small opaque yellow glass ring or bead on the breast. The second body lay with head on the chest of the first. The glass is dateable to c250BC-late 1st century BC.

Remains/Period Y1

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square ST

X coordinate 898

Y coordinate 456

Bibliographic source Cunnington B H and Cunnington M E 1922, Guido 1977-78, Wilson 1981

Query

Site name	Battlesbury Camp
Site number	1312
Burial codes	1003 1009 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1042 1047 1051 1065 1073 1084 1092 1098 1104 1111 1121 1128 1143 1152 1153 1181
100bc-AD43	A hill fort with a piece of human radius in a pit. There was also a (possibly extended) burial of two individuals lying S/N as a secondary deposit in a Bronze Age barrow, overlaid by the Iron Age hill fort rampart. One of the bodies (the larger and lower of the two) was accompanied by a small opaque yellow glass ring or bead on the breast. The second body lay with head on the chest of the first. The glass is dateable to c250BC-late 1st century BC.
Remains/Period	Y1
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	898
Y coordinate	456
Bibliographic source	Cunnington B H and Cunnington M E 1922, Guido 1977-78, Wilson 1981