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Site name Shorncote Quarry C, Somerford Keynes

Site number 1474

Burial codes 3005 3009 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3031 3043 3047 3051 3065 3075 3084 3093 3098 3101 3102 3104 3108 3111 3128 3141 3153 3161 3173 3181 3200

14/1300bc-8/700bc A primary ring ditch with a narrow causeway to the north, and a secondary ring ditch cut on the inside and surviving as a shallow earthwork. Associated with and within the bounds of the secondary ditch were sixteen cremation pits. Seven pits contained cremations in inverted Deverel-Rimbury bucket urns, the largest of which was a sub-biconical urn with horseshoe handles and finger nail decoration. None was buried with grave goods, and there was no evidence of in situ burning. There was no evidence of mortuary structures, and only a few post holes were found in the interior.

Three unurned cremations had been cut into the inner ditch, and one outside the ditch itself. Two crouched burials were found, one to the E and one to the S of the ring ditch (42 and 60). Pit 42 was oval, aligned NS, 1m x 0.8m, and contained an adolescent c14-15, on its right side, head to north facing west. The southerly burial Pit 60 was sub-oval 1.1m x 1.9m and oriented EW. The burial was of an adult (?)male, on its left side, head to W. The central north side of the infilled grave had a cremation of an adult inserted into it.

A further inhumation was found in a very fragmentary state, probably of a female adult, north east of grave 42.

RC: from Grave 42 bone BM-2921 1100 +/- 60, from Grave 60 bone BM-2921 1190 +/- 45

Remains/Period Y3

County Gloucestershire

Region SW

National grid square SU

X coordinate 23

Y coordinate 967

Bibliographic source Glass 1991, Barclay and Glass 1995

Query

Site name	Shorncote Quarry C, Somerford Keynes
Site number	1474
Burial codes	3005 3009 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3031 3043 3047 3051 3065 3075 3084 3093 3098 3101 3102 3104 3108 3111 3128 3141 3153 3161 3173 3181 3200
14/1300bc-8/700bc	A primary ring ditch with a narrow causeway to the north, and a secondary ring ditch cut on the inside and surviving as a shallow earthwork. Associated with and within the bounds of the secondary ditch were sixteen cremation pits. Seven pits contained cremations in inverted Deverel-Rimbury bucket urns, the largest of which was a sub-biconical urn with horseshoe handles and finger nail decoration. None was buried with grave goods, and there was no evidence of in situ burning. There was no evidence of mortuary structures, and only a few post holes were found in the interior. Three unurned cremations had been cut into the inner ditch, and one outside the ditch itself. Two crouched burials were found, one to the E and one to the S of the ring ditch (42 and 60). Pit 42 was oval, aligned NS, 1m x 0.8m, and contained an adolescent c14-15, on its right side, head to north facing west. The southerly burial Pit 60 was sub-oval 1.1m x 1.9m and oriented EW. The burial was of an adult (?)male, on its left side, head to W. The central north side of the infilled grave had a cremation of an adult inserted into it. A further inhumation was found in a very fragmentary state, probably of a female adult, north east of grave 42. RC: from Grave 42 bone BM-2921 1100 +/- 60, from Grave 60 bone BM-2921 1190 +/- 45
Remains/Period	Y3
County	Gloucestershire
Region	SW
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	23
Y coordinate	967
Bibliographic source	Glass 1991, Barclay and Glass 1995