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 Plaister's Lane, Sutton Poyntz, Weymouth

Site number 150

Burial codes 1002 1006 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1042 1046 1051 1065 1075 1084 1091 1098 1104 1111 1129 1143 1181

100bc-AD43 A contracted inhumation burial was associated with a Class 2 pedestalled bead-rim bowl. There was a second inhumation but no details survive, and there were possibly more but the skeletal remains were not attributed.

Remains/Period Y1

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SY

X coordinate 702

Y coordinate 842

Bibliographic source Farrar 1964, RCHM 1970, Whimster 1981

Query

Site name	Plaister's Lane, Sutton Poyntz, Weymouth
Site number	150
Burial codes	1002 1006 1021 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1042 1046 1051 1065 1075 1084 1091 1098 1104 1111 1129 1143 1181
100bc-AD43	A contracted inhumation burial was associated with a Class 2 pedestalled bead-rim bowl. There was a second inhumation but no details survive, and there were possibly more but the skeletal remains were not attributed.
Remains/Period	Y1
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	702
Y coordinate	842
Bibliographic source	Farrar 1964, RCHM 1970, Whimster 1981