Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Runnymede

Site number 1704

Burial codes 2004 2009 2021 2023 2025 2028 2030 2035 2036 2042 2045 2052 2053 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2104 2109 2111 2127 2143 2151 2181 2200

8/700bc-100bc A midden containing (besides pottery, metalwork, animal bone [cattle, pig, sheep, and horse], antler, baked and fired clay, shale, amber, flint, and wood), a large amount of human bone, largely fragmentary. There were 61 contexts for remains, 28 containing pieces of skull, and one containing a neonatal burial. The remains were all found in the matrix of the midden itself, excepting a skull which had been deposited in a pit alongside an entranceway to the site. Within several metres of this deposit, parts of at least two jaws were found. Other identifiable bones include: fragments of ulna, tibia, femur, humerus, pelvis, scapula, vertebra, radius, clavicle, and metapodial.

Radiocarbon dating suggests 900-790 CalBC for the earlier phases of the site (c800-600bc) but other evidence may extend use of the site to 600 CalBC (c530bc).

RC: from waterfront charcoal deposits HAR-3114 740 +/- 80, HAR-3115 770 +/- 80, HAR-3120 740 +/- 80, site 1 occupation layer HAR-1833 670 +/-70, HAR-1834 800 +/-70, charcoal from pit on site 2 HAR-3112 750 +/- 70, HAR-3113 720 +/- 70

Remains/Period Y2

County Surrey

Region SE

National grid square TQ

X coordinate 50

Y coordinate 730

Bibliographic source Needham and Longley 1980, Needham 1985, Needham and Stig Sorensen 1988, Bruck 1995

Query

Site name	Runnymede
Site number	1704
Burial codes	2004 2009 2021 2023 2025 2028 2030 2035 2036 2042 2045 2052 2053 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2104 2109 2111 2127 2143 2151 2181 2200
8/700bc-100bc	A midden containing (besides pottery, metalwork, animal bone [cattle, pig, sheep, and horse], antler, baked and fired clay, shale, amber, flint, and wood), a large amount of human bone, largely fragmentary. There were 61 contexts for remains, 28 containing pieces of skull, and one containing a neonatal burial. The remains were all found in the matrix of the midden itself, excepting a skull which had been deposited in a pit alongside an entranceway to the site. Within several metres of this deposit, parts of at least two jaws were found. Other identifiable bones include: fragments of ulna, tibia, femur, humerus, pelvis, scapula, vertebra, radius, clavicle, and metapodial. Radiocarbon dating suggests 900-790 CalBC for the earlier phases of the site (c800-600bc) but other evidence may extend use of the site to 600 CalBC (c530bc). RC: from waterfront charcoal deposits HAR-3114 740 +/- 80, HAR-3115 770 +/- 80, HAR-3120 740 +/- 80, site 1 occupation layer HAR-1833 670 +/-70, HAR-1834 800 +/-70, charcoal from pit on site 2 HAR-3112 750 +/- 70, HAR-3113 720 +/- 70
Remains/Period	Y2
County	Surrey
Region	SE
National grid square	TQ
X coordinate	50
Y coordinate	730
Bibliographic source	Needham and Longley 1980, Needham 1985, Needham and Stig Sorensen 1988, Bruck 1995