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Site name Scabbs Field, Northfield Farm, Long Wittenham

Site number 1025

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4034 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A penannular ring ditch, entrance to the W, with a slightly off centre Pit 7, 0.6m in diameter, filled with black-brown fine soil, and containing a great deal of charcoal and a small quantity of burnt bone, possibly a cremation deposit. The dating is speculative, based on Bronze Age sherds high in the fill of Sector 2. (Compare for penannular structure Litton Cheney 3, Site 714).

Remains/Period Y4

County Oxfordshire

Region SE

National grid square SU

X coordinate 553

Y coordinate 953

Bibliographic source Gray 1977

Query

Site name	Scabbs Field, Northfield Farm, Long Wittenham
Site number	1025
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4034 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A penannular ring ditch, entrance to the W, with a slightly off centre Pit 7, 0.6m in diameter, filled with black-brown fine soil, and containing a great deal of charcoal and a small quantity of burnt bone, possibly a cremation deposit. The dating is speculative, based on Bronze Age sherds high in the fill of Sector 2. (Compare for penannular structure Litton Cheney 3, Site 714).
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Oxfordshire
Region	SE
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	553
Y coordinate	953
Bibliographic source	Gray 1977