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Site name Highfield, Fisherton
Site number 805
Burial codes 2002 2003 2021 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2042 2045 2051 2065 2075 2084 2075 2092 2098 2103 2104 2105 2106 2107 2111 2112 2128 2143 2153 2181 2182
8/700bc-100bc An enclosed settlement of about 16 acres, where 69 pits were investigated, and with male and female skull, jaw and long bone fragments scattered in pits over the site, some with evidence of violent injury and the marks of scavenging animals.

The 14 bone fragments reported upon represented 14 individuals, including adults c25 or less (2, both violently killed), c30, c40 or less (2, of which 1 was male and the other one speared through the skull), a young female adult, but the remainder not being attributed age or sex.
Remains/Period Y2
County Wiltshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 0
Y coordinate 380
Bibliographic source Stevens 1934, Wilson 1981


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