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Site name Alington Avenue, Fordington

Site number 1660

Burial codes 4002 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4043 4047 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4108 4111 4128 4143 4153 4168 4181 4200 3002 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3042 3046 3051 3065 3075 3084 3092 3098 3104 3111 3121 3128 3143 3153 3181 3200 1002 1005 1021 1023 1025 1028 1030 1035 1042 1046 1051 1065 1072 1084 1092 1098 1104 1111 1121 1123 1125 1128 1129 1143 1153 1181

2500bc-14/1300bc A possible mortuary enclosure or round barrow surviving as a pair of crescent shaped ditches attached to the E end of a presumed long mound, and containing 4 cremations in the ditches, 3 in the north and one in the south. The cremations were unaccompanied and set in small pits or hollows. Their type was considered to be of the Early Bronze Age.

At a later date a spectacle-shaped enclosure was set at the W end of the mound, and in the ditch base were placed three lightly trussed burials of two adults and a juvenile. There may have been an external bank.

RC: long mound ditch basal fill animal bone HAR-8579 2500 +/-80, human bone in ditch base HAR-9662 1860 +/-120

14/1300bc-8/700bc Two pits in the spectacle shaped enclosure contained flexed burials, one with a fragmentary iron pin. The excavators suggested these might have been Bronze Age.

RC: human bone from pit burial HAR-9661 1210 +/-70

100bc-AD43 A D-shaped enclosure was constructed in the very late pre-Roman period covering most of the northern part of the site, entrance to E, and avoiding the barrow. In the early period of its existence 10 crouched Durotrigian burials were deposited, laid in simple chalk cut graves, most oriented EW. The bodies were not buried in containers, although there is evidence for shroud burials from brooches found at the knee and lower leg. Most of the adult burials were accompanied by at least one object, generally pottery vessels, jewellery or food offering placed to one side in the grave. They were dated to the 1st Century AD, with none later than the third quarter.

Remains/Period Y4 Y3 Y1

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SY

X coordinate 702

Y coordinate 899

Bibliographic source Davies, Stacey and Woodward 1985

Query

Site name	Alington Avenue, Fordington
Site number	1660
Burial codes	4002 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4043 4047 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4108 4111 4128 4143 4153 4168 4181 4200 3002 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3042 3046 3051 3065 3075 3084 3092 3098 3104 3111 3121 3128 3143 3153 3181 3200 1002 1005 1021 1023 1025 1028 1030 1035 1042 1046 1051 1065 1072 1084 1092 1098 1104 1111 1121 1123 1125 1128 1129 1143 1153 1181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A possible mortuary enclosure or round barrow surviving as a pair of crescent shaped ditches attached to the E end of a presumed long mound, and containing 4 cremations in the ditches, 3 in the north and one in the south. The cremations were unaccompanied and set in small pits or hollows. Their type was considered to be of the Early Bronze Age. At a later date a spectacle-shaped enclosure was set at the W end of the mound, and in the ditch base were placed three lightly trussed burials of two adults and a juvenile. There may have been an external bank. RC: long mound ditch basal fill animal bone HAR-8579 2500 +/-80, human bone in ditch base HAR-9662 1860 +/-120
14/1300bc-8/700bc	Two pits in the spectacle shaped enclosure contained flexed burials, one with a fragmentary iron pin. The excavators suggested these might have been Bronze Age. RC: human bone from pit burial HAR-9661 1210 +/-70
100bc-AD43	A D-shaped enclosure was constructed in the very late pre-Roman period covering most of the northern part of the site, entrance to E, and avoiding the barrow. In the early period of its existence 10 crouched Durotrigian burials were deposited, laid in simple chalk cut graves, most oriented EW. The bodies were not buried in containers, although there is evidence for shroud burials from brooches found at the knee and lower leg. Most of the adult burials were accompanied by at least one object, generally pottery vessels, jewellery or food offering placed to one side in the grave. They were dated to the 1st Century AD, with none later than the third quarter.
Remains/Period	Y4 Y3 Y1
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	702
Y coordinate	899
Bibliographic source	Davies, Stacey and Woodward 1985