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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 Slaughter Bridge, Lower Slaughter, Bourton-on-the-Water

Site number 325

Burial codes 4001 4006 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4073 4084 4091 4098 4102 4107 4112 4129 4143 4151 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc The body of a female c40 lay on gravel with no pit, contracted, head to S, the limbs flexed. An Abercromby A Beaker lay on its side over the bones of the left arm. The burial was c33m north of a group of Bronze Age pits (Site 334).

Remains/Period Y4

County Gloucestershire

Region SW

National grid square SP

X coordinate 171

Y coordinate 220

Bibliographic source Dunning 1937

Query

Site name	Slaughter Bridge, Lower Slaughter, Bourton-on-the-Water
Site number	325
Burial codes	4001 4006 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4073 4084 4091 4098 4102 4107 4112 4129 4143 4151 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	The body of a female c40 lay on gravel with no pit, contracted, head to S, the limbs flexed. An Abercromby A Beaker lay on its side over the bones of the left arm. The burial was c33m north of a group of Bronze Age pits (Site 334).
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Gloucestershire
Region	SW
National grid square	SP
X coordinate	171
Y coordinate	220
Bibliographic source	Dunning 1937