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Site name	Camerton Seven Acre Field
Site number	1398
Burial codes	2004 2009 2021 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2042 2047 2051 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2104 2109 2111 2128 2143 2151 2181
8/700bc-100bc	An Iron Age hill fort dated from pottery of the A2 series to the middle period, but containing a hut possibly of the later Belgic period. In Ditch I Layer III were two infant skeletons, one a foetus of c7 months term and the other a full term infant. Parts of a human cranium and a mandible were found in other places in ditches but not specified. The ditches were abandoned some time before the Roman period, and probably before the Iron Age B period was fully influential.
Remains/Period	Y2
County	Somerset
Region	SW
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	670
Y coordinate	590
Bibliographic source	Horne 1937

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