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Site name Wood House, Guiting Power

Site number 1192

Burial codes 2001 2004 2021 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2036 2042 2045 2051 2065 2075 2084 2091 2096 2104 2109 2113 2127 2143 2153 2181

8/700bc-100bc A roughly circular, barrel shaped rubbish pit contained the incomplete skeleton of an infant, probably a 7 month old foetus, mixed with hand-made Iron Age sherds of cooking pot, bowl, and storage jar, bones of ox, horse and sheep, loose stones (some burnt), two lumps of iron slag, traces of charcoal and a few small flints.

Remains/Period Y2

County Gloucestershire

Region SW

National grid square SP

X coordinate 83

Y coordinate 258

Bibliographic source Gascoigne 1973, Whimster 1981

Query

Site name	Wood House, Guiting Power
Site number	1192
Burial codes	2001 2004 2021 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2036 2042 2045 2051 2065 2075 2084 2091 2096 2104 2109 2113 2127 2143 2153 2181
8/700bc-100bc	A roughly circular, barrel shaped rubbish pit contained the incomplete skeleton of an infant, probably a 7 month old foetus, mixed with hand-made Iron Age sherds of cooking pot, bowl, and storage jar, bones of ox, horse and sheep, loose stones (some burnt), two lumps of iron slag, traces of charcoal and a few small flints.
Remains/Period	Y2
County	Gloucestershire
Region	SW
National grid square	SP
X coordinate	83
Y coordinate	258
Bibliographic source	Gascoigne 1973, Whimster 1981