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Site name | Warren Farm Ring Ditch MK13 |
Site number | 937 |
Burial codes | 4001 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4102 4104 4105 4109 4110 4125 4143 4153 4161 4181 4200 3001 3005 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3042 3046 3051 3065 3071 3084 3092 3098 3102 3105 3112 3128 3143 3151 3154 3181 3200 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A ring ditch with a primary cremation 1m west of the centre in a small oval pit 0.78m x 0.5m x 0.2m deep. It was the remains of a female c15-20 possibly accompanied by a foetus or newly born baby, and there was also a canine and incisor tooth of a pig. In the primary fill of the ditch in the south east quadrant fragments of two pots in association were found, one a bipartite urn and the other a hybrid Beaker-urn. RC: from layer 4 charcoal (clearance horizon?) I-7148 1500 +/-90 About 28m west north west of the western edge of the ring ditch in a shallow hole 5cm deep was the cremation of a child c0-6 months in a Bronze Age urn, placed early on grounds of fabric type. |
14/1300bc-8/700bc | In the ditch in the north east quadrant, in the layer above a charcoal spread (possibly a clearance horizon), there was a secondary disturbed inhumation of a female c20-25, crouched on its right side, with head to NNW. A cairn of stones was piled above. RC: from human bone HAR-341 1040 +/-80 |
Remains/Period | Y4 Y3 |
County | Buckinghamshire |
Region | SE |
National grid square | SP |
X coordinate | 803 |
Y coordinate | 407 |
Bibliographic source | Green 1974a/b |
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