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Site name Uplands, Upper Lambourn
Site number 965
Burial codes 3001 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3034 3042 3046 3051 3065 3075 3084 3091 3098 3102 3106 3112 3128 3143 3153 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc An isolated inhumation in a pit cut 1.2m into the chalk, in which was placed the extended burial of a probable female c30, oriented EW, and with skull morphology interpreted as belonging to a post-Neolithic but pre-Iron Age person. Bone preservation also suggested a date very much earlier than comparable Saxon burials.
Remains/Period Y3
County Berkshire
Region SE
National grid square SU
X coordinate 320
Y coordinate 780
Bibliographic source Coghlan 1956


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