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Site name Field Farm Ring Ditch 032, Burghfield
Site number 957
Burial codes 3005 3009 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3092 3098 3102 3107 3112 3128 3143 3153 3160 3161 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc A ring ditch of irregular shape, and at least 4 causeways. To the south of the centre was a pit containing an almost complete barrel urn inverted over a dense deposit of charcoal and the clean cremated bone of an adult female c30-45. The remains of a funeral pyre had been dumped in the pit around the urn apparently when cool. There was a possible secondary cremation deposit outside the ring ditch to the south west.
Remains/Period Y3
County Berkshire
Region SE
National grid square SU
X coordinate 674
Y coordinate 705
Bibliographic source Butterworth and Lobb 1992


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