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Site name Old Boat Corner, Ditchling Road, Falmer

Site number 1522

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4101 4111 4124 4126 4129 4143 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A flat grave of oval shape c0.45m deep containing a male contracted skeleton on its left side facing SE,accompanied by a richly ornamented Abercromby type B Beaker, and a tanged and barbed arrow head with diverging barbs under the skull. Placed in front of the mouth of the skeleton was a heap of snail shells, among which helix nemoralis and cyclostoma elegans predominated.

Remains/Period Y4

County Sussex

Region SE

National grid square TQ

X coordinate 310

Y coordinate 40

Bibliographic source Anon 1922, Grinsell 1931, Musson 1954

Query

Site name	Old Boat Corner, Ditchling Road, Falmer
Site number	1522
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4101 4111 4124 4126 4129 4143 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A flat grave of oval shape c0.45m deep containing a male contracted skeleton on its left side facing SE,accompanied by a richly ornamented Abercromby type B Beaker, and a tanged and barbed arrow head with diverging barbs under the skull. Placed in front of the mouth of the skeleton was a heap of snail shells, among which helix nemoralis and cyclostoma elegans predominated.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Sussex
Region	SE
National grid square	TQ
X coordinate	310
Y coordinate	40
Bibliographic source	Anon 1922, Grinsell 1931, Musson 1954