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Site name West Littleton Down, Tormarton
Site number 366
Burial codes 3002 3006 3021 3023 3026 3028 3030 3035 3042 3046 3051 3065 3075 3084 3091 3098 3101 3105 3112 3128 3143 3153 3182 3200
14/1300bc-8/700bc A pit burial of 2 males c19. Both appeared to have died violently, one having a spearhead hole in the pelvis, the other a small Bronze Age spearhead lodged between two of the lumbar vertebrae and another embedded in the pelvis, as well as a hole in the skull, possibly the result of a blow.

RC: from collagen in the second skeleton BM-542 977 +/- 90
Remains/Period Y3
County Gloucestershire
Region SW
National grid square ST
X coordinate 767
Y coordinate 767
Bibliographic source Knight, Browne and Grinsell 1972


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