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Site name Rackham Hill, Amberley
Site number 1531
Burial codes 1001 1005 1021 1023 1025 1028 1030 1035 1041 1045 1051 1065 1075 1084 1091 1098 1104 1111 1128 1143 1152 1153 1181
100bc-AD43 A round barrow with a ditch, with a central irregular hollow filled with black greasy soil, much wood charcoal including mature oak, and soot. Over this was a 0.3m thick layer of similar soil, c1m in diameter, and then a thin layer of earth. The black layer contained a small quantity of partly carbonised bone. At the mound centre flints were more numerous, but otherwise the mound was of chalk and earth. Pottery found on or just below the old ground surface was indeterminate, but two sherds from the chalk surface near the west edge of the deposit of black soil were of La Tene III type (one a beaded rim).
Remains/Period Y1
County Sussex
Region SE
National grid square TQ
X coordinate 50
Y coordinate 130
Bibliographic source Curwen 1932


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