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Site name	Swallowcliffe Down
Site number	1320
Burial codes	2002 2003 2021 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2042 2045 2051 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2102 2104 2108 2111 2128 2143 2153 2181
8/700bc-100bc	A settlement site of at least two occupancies containing 93 pits, abandoned in pre-Roman times, with scattered human bones in one of the pits. The pottery was largely La Tene I with few Hallstatt types in evidence. Two La Tene I fibulae were found, one later in date. In Pit 1 were fragments of three persons, a frontal bone of a male, 2 parietals of a young person, and half of a left humerus of a male. [Probably 5th-4th Centuries BC].
Remains/Period	Y2
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	968
Y coordinate	254
Bibliographic source	Clay 1926e, 1927c, Cunnington M E 1934, Wait 1985

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