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Site name Netheravon Flying School

Site number 415

Burial codes 4006 4009 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4085 4091 4098 4103 4106 4107 4108 4110 4129 4130 4143 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc Two graves seemingly without mounds were discovered while foundations were being dug for a new flying school aerodrome. The graves were cut 0.9m into the chalk and were 3m apart. One grave contained the crouched skeleton of an old female accompanied by a natural flint of peculiar form lying across her chest, and a Beaker. The flint was 0.45m long, roughly cylindrical (4-5cm in diameter) with a projection at one extremity. It was broken in two. The second grave contained the skeletons of a female c30-40 and a child c1-2, probably male. A plainer Beaker than the first accompanied these inhumations.

Remains/Period Y4

County Wiltshire

Region S

National grid square SU

X coordinate 140

Y coordinate 480

Bibliographic source Cunnington M E 1926a

Query

Site name	Netheravon Flying School
Site number	415
Burial codes	4006 4009 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4085 4091 4098 4103 4106 4107 4108 4110 4129 4130 4143 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	Two graves seemingly without mounds were discovered while foundations were being dug for a new flying school aerodrome. The graves were cut 0.9m into the chalk and were 3m apart. One grave contained the crouched skeleton of an old female accompanied by a natural flint of peculiar form lying across her chest, and a Beaker. The flint was 0.45m long, roughly cylindrical (4-5cm in diameter) with a projection at one extremity. It was broken in two. The second grave contained the skeletons of a female c30-40 and a child c1-2, probably male. A plainer Beaker than the first accompanied these inhumations.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Wiltshire
Region	S
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	140
Y coordinate	480
Bibliographic source	Cunnington M E 1926a