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Site name Dorchester-on-Thames, Site 4

Site number 877

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4091 4092 4098 4104 4111 4112 4122 4124 4128 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc Two conjoined ring ditches placed across the central axis of the cursus, a little to the north west of the long D-shaped enclosure (Dorchester Site 1, Site 870). Ring ditch F1005 originally enclosed an earth mound and had a central pit with the remains of the neck of a collared urn inverted over the cremated bone of an adult accompanied by a fragmentary bronze awl and an unburnt flint flake .

RC: from charcoal in the cremation BM-2167R 1740 +/-130

Ring ditch F1004 was an oval annex to the SW. It contained a cremation in the south west quadrant of the much disturbed interior. This comprised a scatter of calcined bone from the cremation of one adult and much charcoal in a very shallow pit.

[Order suggested by Whittle et al 1992: Dorchester Site VIII, 1, III, XI, II, I, IV, V, VI, 2, 3, XIV, XII, XIII, 4, VII, IX].

Remains/Period Y4

County Oxfordshire

Region SE

National grid square SU

X coordinate 579

Y coordinate 950

Bibliographic source Chambers 1982, Whittle, Atkinson, Chambers and Thomas 1992

Query

Site name	Dorchester-on-Thames, Site 4
Site number	877
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4091 4092 4098 4104 4111 4112 4122 4124 4128 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	Two conjoined ring ditches placed across the central axis of the cursus, a little to the north west of the long D-shaped enclosure (Dorchester Site 1, Site 870). Ring ditch F1005 originally enclosed an earth mound and had a central pit with the remains of the neck of a collared urn inverted over the cremated bone of an adult accompanied by a fragmentary bronze awl and an unburnt flint flake . RC: from charcoal in the cremation BM-2167R 1740 +/-130 Ring ditch F1004 was an oval annex to the SW. It contained a cremation in the south west quadrant of the much disturbed interior. This comprised a scatter of calcined bone from the cremation of one adult and much charcoal in a very shallow pit. [Order suggested by Whittle et al 1992: Dorchester Site VIII, 1, III, XI, II, I, IV, V, VI, 2, 3, XIV, XII, XIII, 4, VII, IX].
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Oxfordshire
Region	SE
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	579
Y coordinate	950
Bibliographic source	Chambers 1982, Whittle, Atkinson, Chambers and Thomas 1992