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Site name Shorncote Quarry B, Somerford Keynes

Site number 1473

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4108 4121 4123 4124 4143 4153 4181 4200

2500bc-14/1300bc A flat grave 1.5m x 1.1m x 0.25m deep oriented NS containing a crouched inhumation buried with a long necked Beaker, a flint flake near the feet, and a penannular ribbed bronze bracelet. A cylindrical pit was just north east of the grave, containing a flint flake. The burial was of an adolescent c14-16.

RC: BM-2892 1530 +/- 60

Remains/Period Y4

County Gloucestershire

Region SW

National grid square SU

X coordinate 30

Y coordinate 967

Bibliographic source Glass 1991, Barclay and Glass 1995

Query

Site name	Shorncote Quarry B, Somerford Keynes
Site number	1473
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4108 4121 4123 4124 4143 4153 4181 4200
2500bc-14/1300bc	A flat grave 1.5m x 1.1m x 0.25m deep oriented NS containing a crouched inhumation buried with a long necked Beaker, a flint flake near the feet, and a penannular ribbed bronze bracelet. A cylindrical pit was just north east of the grave, containing a flint flake. The burial was of an adolescent c14-16. RC: BM-2892 1530 +/- 60
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Gloucestershire
Region	SW
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	30
Y coordinate	967
Bibliographic source	Glass 1991, Barclay and Glass 1995