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Site name Gallows Gore East, Worth Matravers
Site number 155
Burial codes 1001 1006 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1042 1046 1051 1065 1075 1084 1091 1098 1104 1108 1113 1129 1143 1153 1156 1181
100bc-AD43 A two stone cist with a cover slab contained the skeleton of a child c6 accompanied by a hand-made pottery vessel. It was described as an Iron Age A burial, but may be later on analogy with Site 154.
Remains/Period Y1
County Dorset
Region S
National grid square SY
X coordinate 982
Y coordinate 787
Bibliographic source Calkin 1948, RCHM 1970, Whimster 1981


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