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Site name Merlin's Cave, Symond's Yat
Site number 1429
Burial codes 2002 2008 2022 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2041 2045 2051 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2104 2111 2128 2143 2151 2181
8/700bc-100bc A cave with evidence of human occupation over several millenia. Human bones were found in undisturbed parts of all the deposits (except the barren), but none appeared to have been buried. At 1A they were very numerous in the topmost stratum, and the majority of them were thought probably to be of the Romano-British or Early Iron Age. Almost all were fragmentary, representing 5 adults and a child c6, none assigned to a particular period.
Remains/Period Y2
County Gloucestershire
Region SW
National grid square SO
X coordinate 700
Y coordinate 130
Bibliographic source Hewer 1924, 1925b, Phillips 1931a, Bruck 1995


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