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Site name Copse Farm, Oving
Site number 1520
Burial codes 1004 1009 1022 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1036 1042 1045 1051 1065 1075 1084 1092 1098 1104 1109 1110 1111 1127 1128 1143 1151 1181
100bc-AD43 A settlement site spanning the 2nd/1st Centuries BC, with human skeletal material from 3 individuals in one of four interlinked enclosure ditches (Trench B) comprising 4 fragments of a right proximal femur from an adult, the distal end of a right femur shaft from a probable sub-adult, and 17 cranial fragments from a child c0-2. The ditches contained large quantities of Late Iron Age pottery, animal bone, and smaller quantities of amphorae, metalwork, slag, fired clay and worked stone. Some of the sherds in the ditches joined with pieces found within the enclosures. Some of the deposits may have been deliberately dumped. The site was effectively a sealed Late Iron Age stratigraphical sequence, as all contexts were devoid of Romano-British or later artefacts.
Remains/Period Y1
County Sussex
Region SE
National grid square SU
X coordinate 885
Y coordinate 80
Bibliographic source Bedwin and Holgate 1985


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