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Site name New Wintle's Farm, Eynsham
Site number 140
Burial codes 5002 5005 5021 5023 5025 5028 5030 5031 5041 5045 5051 5065 5074 5085 5092 5098 5104 5108 5111 5124 5143 5153 5171 5181
3500bc - 2500bc An enclosed cemetery oriented on its long axis NE with a double causewayed ditch, the ditches eccentric, and the gaps not coinciding. There were two cremation burials enclosed by the inner causewayed oval ditch. The oval pits 1 and 2 (both oriented NW) contained very small quantities of burnt bone, and Middle Neolithic pottery of Abingdon ware. There were the cremated remains of 2 young children in the pits, one at each end of the oval inner ditched area. In pit 2 there was an arrangement of 5 small slabs of cornbrash or forest marble in a continuous arc on the southern side of the deposit.

There were 3 more cremations in token amounts in separate pits between the inner ditch and the outer causewayed ditch. A few Middle Neolithic sherds appeared in each. Dark deposits in the pits were interpreted as pyre gleanings.
Remains/Period Y5
County Oxfordshire
Region SE
National grid square SP
X coordinate 431
Y coordinate 109
Bibliographic source Anon 1969, Kenward 1969, 1982, Case and Whittle 1982, Kinnes 1979


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