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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 Otford i, Greenhill Road, Sevenoaks

Site number 899

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4081 4091 4098 4101 4106 4128 4143 4153 4161 4162 4181 4200

2500bc-14/1300bc A flat grave comprising a Middle Bonze Age collared urn with undecorated neck of the south eastern tradition found inverted over cremation of a male adult c25-35. The bones were clean of earth, and appeared to have been crushed and placed in a container of cloth or leather which had perished. Traces were found of a cylindrical hole c0.6m in diameter with a flat bottom in which the vessel had been placed. The hole had been backfilled with soil.

RC: from charcoal at base of sub-soil hollow HAR-3690 2280 +/-80

Remains/Period Y4

County Kent

Region SE

National grid square TQ

X coordinate 535

Y coordinate 600

Bibliographic source Pyke and Ward 1975, Pyke 1980, 1981, Grinsell 1992

Query

Site name	Otford i, Greenhill Road, Sevenoaks
Site number	899
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4081 4091 4098 4101 4106 4128 4143 4153 4161 4162 4181 4200
2500bc-14/1300bc	A flat grave comprising a Middle Bonze Age collared urn with undecorated neck of the south eastern tradition found inverted over cremation of a male adult c25-35. The bones were clean of earth, and appeared to have been crushed and placed in a container of cloth or leather which had perished. Traces were found of a cylindrical hole c0.6m in diameter with a flat bottom in which the vessel had been placed. The hole had been backfilled with soil. RC: from charcoal at base of sub-soil hollow HAR-3690 2280 +/-80
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Kent
Region	SE
National grid square	TQ
X coordinate	535
Y coordinate	600
Bibliographic source	Pyke and Ward 1975, Pyke 1980, 1981, Grinsell 1992