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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 Lower Slaughter 1a-c, Young's Gravel Pit A

Site number 334

Burial codes 4001 4006 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4045 4051 4053 4056 4075 4084 4091 4102 4108 4113 4125 4143 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A pit with a complete shed deer's antler, parts of antler and the left half of the frontal bone of a young female. The pit was considered contemporaneous with the 2 adjacent containing Middle Bronze Age urns (Site 333). The pit was filled with stiff red clay with a few pebbles.

Remains/Period Y4

County Gloucestershire

Region SW

National grid square SP

X coordinate 171

Y coordinate 220

Bibliographic source Dunning 1932a

Query

Site name	Lower Slaughter 1a-c, Young's Gravel Pit A
Site number	334
Burial codes	4001 4006 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4045 4051 4053 4056 4075 4084 4091 4102 4108 4113 4125 4143 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A pit with a complete shed deer's antler, parts of antler and the left half of the frontal bone of a young female. The pit was considered contemporaneous with the 2 adjacent containing Middle Bronze Age urns (Site 333). The pit was filled with stiff red clay with a few pebbles.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Gloucestershire
Region	SW
National grid square	SP
X coordinate	171
Y coordinate	220
Bibliographic source	Dunning 1932a