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Site name Grim's Ditch, Mongewell

Site number 1360

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8/700bc-100bc A stretch of the ditch and bank were excavated prior to road-widening, and three inhumations were found in the bank. Pottery recovered from the old ground surface, the ditch and the bank was Iron Age, but disturbance prevented the date of the structure being firmly attributed.

Remains/Period Y2

County Oxfordshire

Region SE

National grid square SU

X coordinate 617

Y coordinate 979

Bibliographic source Hinchliffe 1975

Query

Site name	Grim's Ditch, Mongewell
Site number	1360
Burial codes	2002 2005 2021 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2042 2046 2051 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2104 2111 2128 2143 2153 2181
8/700bc-100bc	A stretch of the ditch and bank were excavated prior to road-widening, and three inhumations were found in the bank. Pottery recovered from the old ground surface, the ditch and the bank was Iron Age, but disturbance prevented the date of the structure being firmly attributed.
Remains/Period	Y2
County	Oxfordshire
Region	SE
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	617
Y coordinate	979
Bibliographic source	Hinchliffe 1975