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Site name Weeke, Winchester
Site number 847
Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4074 4084 4091 4098 4102 4106 4129 4143 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc An inhumation of a probable female c30, brachycephalic, flexed or crouched, on its right side, head to SW, with an A Beaker by the head. It was in a grave pit cut into the chalk, 1.8m x 1.35m x 0.8m deep with rounded corners, and filled with chalk rubble. Low in the filling was a layer 5cm thick of black material including much charcoal. It appears to have been an isolated burial with no mound.
Remains/Period Y4
County Hampshire
Region S
National grid square SU
X coordinate 466
Y coordinate 313
Bibliographic source Chapman 1957


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