Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

Background to the Gazetteer | Table of Contents

• 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	Cotton Valley Ring Ditch MK21
Site number	933
Burial codes	4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4092 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4153 4161 4181 4200
2500bc-14/1300bc	A ring ditch from a ploughed out barrow. The primary deposit was 1.25m west of the ring ditch centre, and consisted of the cremation possibly of an adult in an inverted collared urn of the primary series, with no charcoal present. The secondary cremation was c5m NNE of the first and was placed in a collared urn of the secondary series, probably inverted, but disturbed. RC: charcoal from probable clearance horizon HAR-471 1340 +/-160
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Buckinghamshire
Region	SE
National grid square	SP
X coordinate	885
Y coordinate	409
Bibliographic source	Gowing 1971, Green 1974a/b

© Internet Archaeology/Author(s)
Last updated: Tues Aug 10 2004