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Site name | Milton Keynes Ring Ditch MK23 |
Site number | 936 |
Burial codes | 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4108 4113 4128 4143 4153 4181 4200 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A ring ditch, possibly the remains of a bell barrow. The primary cremation deposit comprising bone and charcoal was 1.5m west of the ring ditch centre. It represented the part remains of a young person c8-16, was unaccompanied, and possibly placed in a shallow pit removed by ploughing. Beaker sherds were found stratified in the ditch layers 2 and 3, of steps 1/3-6/7 [according to Green 2100-1500 bc in radiocarbon years]. There was a scatter up to 50m from the barrow of a flint industry containing Mesolithic and Neolithic/Bronze Age artifacts. A clearance horizon in the ditch provides a terminus ante quem for the barrow. RC: from charcoal in the clearance horizon I-7144 1280 +/- 90 |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Buckinghamshire |
Region | SE |
National grid square | SP |
X coordinate | 811 |
Y coordinate | 386 |
Bibliographic source | Green 1974a/b |
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