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Basic Information

  • Burial Sk.6138

Contexts

  • Context: WIT_6133
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    • Cut of grave, cut into ditch 6098
    • Ben Swain
    • 7-1-2020
  • Context: WIT_6134
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    • Fill of grave cut into ditch 6098
    • Ben Swain
    • 7-1-2020
  • Context: WIT_6138
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    • Skeleton within grave cut 6133. N-S aligned. Cut into ditch 6098
    • Ben Swain
    • 7-1-2020

Narrative

    • Likely roman grave containing SK6138, cut into potential Iron Age ditch. Numerous iron coffin nails were recovered from this grave.
      • Ben Swain
    • 31-3-2020
    • A grave containing a north east to south west aligned skeleton with the head at the south west. Within the burial 37 iron nails were observed in and around the skeleton, it is assumed these were from the coffin. The cut of the grave was 1.90m long, 0.50m wide and 0.35m deep.
      • Nat Jackson
    • 8-4-2020

Dating Narrative

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