Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Downside Close, Shoreham-by-Sea

Site number 1085

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4071 4084 4091 4098 4102 4107 4126 4129 4143 4153 4159 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A flat grave, roughly circular c1.5m in diameter and almost 2m deep, containing the crouched skeleton of an adult female c50, on its right side, head to N, resting on a bed of flints. Accompanying the burial was a Beaker and the bones of a pig, set down close to the front of the body.

Remains/Period Y4

County Sussex

Region SE

National grid square TQ

X coordinate 219

Y coordinate 64

Bibliographic source Witten 1978

Query

Site name	Downside Close, Shoreham-by-Sea
Site number	1085
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4071 4084 4091 4098 4102 4107 4126 4129 4143 4153 4159 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A flat grave, roughly circular c1.5m in diameter and almost 2m deep, containing the crouched skeleton of an adult female c50, on its right side, head to N, resting on a bed of flints. Accompanying the burial was a Beaker and the bones of a pig, set down close to the front of the body.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Sussex
Region	SE
National grid square	TQ
X coordinate	219
Y coordinate	64
Bibliographic source	Witten 1978