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Site name Quint's Hill, Old Warden
Site number 235
Burial codes 1002 1006 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1041 1048 1051 1065 1075 1084 1098 1104 1111 1129 1143 1153 1172 1181
100bc-AD43 In a pit c1.2m were 2 iron hoops surviving from a (?)bucket which enclosed the cremated remains of an individual, with close by 2 amphorae (all now lost and 2 surviving Type 1a cordoned pedestal urns of turned shale. Both urns were designed to be separated into three parts.
Remains/Period Y1
County Bedfordshire
Region SE
National grid square TL
X coordinate 135
Y coordinate 446
Bibliographic source Dryden 1845, Fox 1923, Birchall 1965, Stead 1971, Whimster 1981


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