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Site name Sutton Poyntz, Weymouth
Site number 151
Burial codes 1002 1006 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1042 1046 1051 1065 1074 1084 1091 1098 1104 1111 1122 1129 1143 1153 1181
100bc-AD43 Two skeletons were found during trenching operations, the second lying crouched on the right side, oriented W, and having in association a bead-rim pottery vessel by the head, hob-nails by the feet, a bronze needle and pottery sherds in the grave filling. The first skeleton was of the second half of the 1st Century AD (a plate brooch dated this).
Remains/Period Y1
County Dorset
Region S
National grid square SY
X coordinate 706
Y coordinate 839
Bibliographic source RCHM 1970, Whimster 1981


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