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Site name Coronation Road, Weston-super-Mare

Site number 307

Burial codes 2006 2009 2021 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2036 2042 2047 2051 2065 2075 2084 2093 2094 2098 2103 2104 2109 2110 2121 2122 2125 2127 2130 2143 2153 2181

8/700bc-100bc Pit burials were found in roadmaking in 1902. An 'accumulation of soil and rubble' covered limestone rock much broken at this point, and three pits sunk into broken rock. Each pit was filled with a grey sandy deposit including granular charcoal. Possibly the pits were covered by a thin lias slab. Pit 1 contained one male and one female squatting skeletons facing each other. On a broken lias slab at the bottom were many well rounded pebbles (sling shot?), fragments of coarse pottery, and broken bones of horse, ox and sheep. In Pit 2 was a cranium of a very young child, animal bones and broken pottery, but no pebbles. Pit 3 held no human skeletal material but was nearly filled with broken bones of ox, horse, sheep, swine and a portion of a (?)dog's lower jaw. Over Pit 1 there was a further subsequent interment of a body laid flexed, head to E, of a male. Near the head was a bronze fibula, and a stone pebble with an incised cross.

Remains/Period Y2

County Somerset

Region SW

National grid square ST

X coordinate 326

Y coordinate 616

Bibliographic source Davies 1904, Whimster 1981

Query

Site name	Coronation Road, Weston-super-Mare
Site number	307
Burial codes	2006 2009 2021 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2036 2042 2047 2051 2065 2075 2084 2093 2094 2098 2103 2104 2109 2110 2121 2122 2125 2127 2130 2143 2153 2181
8/700bc-100bc	Pit burials were found in roadmaking in 1902. An 'accumulation of soil and rubble' covered limestone rock much broken at this point, and three pits sunk into broken rock. Each pit was filled with a grey sandy deposit including granular charcoal. Possibly the pits were covered by a thin lias slab. Pit 1 contained one male and one female squatting skeletons facing each other. On a broken lias slab at the bottom were many well rounded pebbles (sling shot?), fragments of coarse pottery, and broken bones of horse, ox and sheep. In Pit 2 was a cranium of a very young child, animal bones and broken pottery, but no pebbles. Pit 3 held no human skeletal material but was nearly filled with broken bones of ox, horse, sheep, swine and a portion of a (?)dog's lower jaw. Over Pit 1 there was a further subsequent interment of a body laid flexed, head to E, of a male. Near the head was a bronze fibula, and a stone pebble with an incised cross.
Remains/Period	Y2
County	Somerset
Region	SW
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	326
Y coordinate	616
Bibliographic source	Davies 1904, Whimster 1981