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Site name Cockey Down
Site number 1657
Burial codes 2002 2003 2021 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2036 2042 2048 2051 2065 2072 2084 2092 2098 2104 2111 2127 2128 2143 2153 2181
8/700bc-100bc An Iron Age enclosure containing pits and other less well defined features. At the base of a small oval pit was the crouched inhumation of an adult, head to NE, on its left side, facing south. More human bones, including large fragments from a second skull, were found in the soil overlying the skeleton. The pottery in the pit was of the same range of 'proto saucepan-pot' types found in the enclosure ditch and dated to 400-300 BC.
Remains/Period Y2
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 170
Y coordinate 314
Bibliographic source Trott 1991


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