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Site name | Ring Ditch 3, Cowdery's Down, Basingstoke |
Site number | 951 |
Burial codes | 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4102 4107 4121 4129 4143 4153 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A ring ditch with in the northernmost section a grave cut into the bottom of the ditch fill containing a crouched inhumation of an adult female c30-40 facing towards the centre of the ring, and accompanied by three beads at the neck, and a flint blade from behind the spine. The beads comprised a jet toggle and two pestle shaped pendants of shale, and the excavator dates them to 1700-1500 Cal BC. There was stratigraphically later basic Deverel-Rimbury bucket and globular urn pottery in the ditch fill elsewhere in the middle and upper fill of the southern and eastern sides. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Hampshire |
Region | S |
National grid square | SU |
X coordinate | 657 |
Y coordinate | 532 |
Bibliographic source | Millett and James 1983 |
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