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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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