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Site name All Cannings Cross

Site number 320

Burial codes 2003 2009 2021 2023 2025 2028 2030 2035 2036 2042 2045 2051 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2103 2104 2107 2111 2127 2128 2143 2153 2181

8/700bc-100bc A settlement site with 75 pits, whose occupation began at some time in the Early Iron Age and ended c300BC (or the end of La Tene I) from metal and ceramic evidence. No complete burials were found on the site but fragments of human bone found as follows:

1 Four skull pieces worked into shapes of rectangles (2), a perforated roundel cut from dried bone (1) and one polished with fractured edges. The perforation was for suspension as it was at the edge.

2 28 unworked skull fragments from 9-12 individuals (5 male, 4 female and one unsexed). Of these one was an adult male less than c40.

These were the only human remains found. They were all quite detached from one another, and were mixed with other domestic rubbish in pits on the site.

Remains/Period Y2

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 80

Y coordinate 634

Bibliographic source Cunnington M E 1912a, 1922b, 1923, Wilson 1981, Wait 1985, Bruck 1995

Query

Site name	All Cannings Cross
Site number	320
Burial codes	2003 2009 2021 2023 2025 2028 2030 2035 2036 2042 2045 2051 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2103 2104 2107 2111 2127 2128 2143 2153 2181
8/700bc-100bc	A settlement site with 75 pits, whose occupation began at some time in the Early Iron Age and ended c300BC (or the end of La Tene I) from metal and ceramic evidence. No complete burials were found on the site but fragments of human bone found as follows: 1 Four skull pieces worked into shapes of rectangles (2), a perforated roundel cut from dried bone (1) and one polished with fractured edges. The perforation was for suspension as it was at the edge. 2 28 unworked skull fragments from 9-12 individuals (5 male, 4 female and one unsexed). Of these one was an adult male less than c40. These were the only human remains found. They were all quite detached from one another, and were mixed with other domestic rubbish in pits on the site.
Remains/Period	Y2
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	80
Y coordinate	634
Bibliographic source	Cunnington M E 1912a, 1922b, 1923, Wilson 1981, Wait 1985, Bruck 1995