What is recorded here
A ring ditch (13m diam.) (DU005-143001-) with an inhumation roughly central within it was excavated in advance of development (Licence no. 06E0477). The burial was a crouched juvenile in a sub-rectangular pit. The skull had been disturbed and reburied in a small pit with an animal rib and human scapula (Corcoran 2009, 40).
Compiled by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 2 February 2015
A Neolithic inhumation burial within a ring ditch; significant for the crouched juvenile burial and context of early funerary practices.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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