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Site name Wraysbury
Site number 1506
Burial codes 2006 2009 2021 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2042 2045 2052 2053 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2104 2111 2123 2128 2143 2151 2181 2200
8/700bc-100bc Skull found in the Thames with an Ewart Park sword.

RC: OxA-1195 790 +/-60

Another skull from the same area.

RC: OxA-1196 800 +/-80

A large collection of Late Bronze Age metalwork has been recovered from the same stretches of the river which have produced many of the human remains. The associations of metalwork with remains are rare.
Remains/Period Y2
County Berkshire
Region SE
National grid square SU
X coordinate 800
Y coordinate 800
Bibliographic source Bruck 1995


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