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Site name Small Down Camp

Site number 438

Burial codes 4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4045 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4093 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4151 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A ditched enclosure with in the silting of the outer ditch at the eastern entrance in Cutting 3, in a stratum containing Bronze Age sherds and animal bone, the portion of the right temporal bone of a young person.

In Cutting 2 through the inner ditch, close up to the second entrance and on the western side of the causeway, was found the greater portion of a human lower jaw. It rested on a ledge of the rock-wall of the causeway, c0.3m above the ditch bottom. A similar sherd to those in Cutting 2 was found in the fill.

Remains/Period Y4

County Somerset

Region SW

National grid square ST

X coordinate 640

Y coordinate 380

Bibliographic source Gray 1904

Query

Site name	Small Down Camp
Site number	438
Burial codes	4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4045 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4093 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4151 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A ditched enclosure with in the silting of the outer ditch at the eastern entrance in Cutting 3, in a stratum containing Bronze Age sherds and animal bone, the portion of the right temporal bone of a young person. In Cutting 2 through the inner ditch, close up to the second entrance and on the western side of the causeway, was found the greater portion of a human lower jaw. It rested on a ledge of the rock-wall of the causeway, c0.3m above the ditch bottom. A similar sherd to those in Cutting 2 was found in the fill.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Somerset
Region	SW
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	640
Y coordinate	380
Bibliographic source	Gray 1904