Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

Background to the Gazetteer | Table of Contents

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 Lidbury Camp

Site number 1316

Burial codes 2002 2004 2021 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2036 2042 2045 2051 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2104 2111 2127 2128 2143 2151 2153 2181

8/700bc-100bc A small Early Iron Age enclosure occupied from c4th Century BC to the immediate pre-Roman period, with 11 domestic refuse pits. Fragments of human remains were found at different points.

One skull fragment was found in Pit 8 with threshing debris, quern stones, 2 hammer stones and a sling bullet. A humerus was found on the occupied floor of the outer ditch east of the entrance. Three separate fragments of skulls were found in different parts of the ditch, and one fragment in Pit 7. Two vertebrae came from the ditch on the eastern side of the entrenchment. The upper part of an ulna cut and shaped into a scoop like implement was found on the occupied floor of the outer ditch east of the entrance. There was also found a shaped and perforated piece of human cranium (temporal bone) in the ditch of the enclosure west of the entrance.

Remains/Period Y2

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 166

Y coordinate 542

Bibliographic source Cunnington M E 1917, 1934, Wilson 1981, Bruck 1995

Query

Site name	Lidbury Camp
Site number	1316
Burial codes	2002 2004 2021 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2036 2042 2045 2051 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2104 2111 2127 2128 2143 2151 2153 2181
8/700bc-100bc	A small Early Iron Age enclosure occupied from c4th Century BC to the immediate pre-Roman period, with 11 domestic refuse pits. Fragments of human remains were found at different points. One skull fragment was found in Pit 8 with threshing debris, quern stones, 2 hammer stones and a sling bullet. A humerus was found on the occupied floor of the outer ditch east of the entrance. Three separate fragments of skulls were found in different parts of the ditch, and one fragment in Pit 7. Two vertebrae came from the ditch on the eastern side of the entrenchment. The upper part of an ulna cut and shaped into a scoop like implement was found on the occupied floor of the outer ditch east of the entrance. There was also found a shaped and perforated piece of human cranium (temporal bone) in the ditch of the enclosure west of the entrance.
Remains/Period	Y2
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	166
Y coordinate	542
Bibliographic source	Cunnington M E 1917, 1934, Wilson 1981, Bruck 1995