Monument record 0121301000 - E SIDE OF CONINGSBY ROAD

Summary

Possible Iron Age burials found on edge of natural mound

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Type and Period (1)

  • INHUMATION (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC? to 42 AD?)

Description

2 SKELETONS FOUND EXTENDED SIDE BY SIDE ON A BED OF FLINTS ON EDGE OF WHAT APPEARED TO BE A NATURAL MOUND. NO ARTEFACTS FOUND WITH THEM & THEY MAY PROBABLY HAVE BEEN PLACED IN A TUMULUS OF EARLIER DATE OF WHICH PRIMARY BURIAL IS YET UNDISTURBED (B1).

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC3131 Bibliographic reference: COLMER F MS NOTEBOOKS (BCM ACC NO 182.1988(9)) %.
  • <2>SBC3143 Bibliographic reference: COLMER MRS A, 1978, FROM LOCAL INFORM ATION.

Location

Grid reference SU 86710 94140 (point)
Civil Parish HIGH WYCOMBE, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jan 11 1989 12:00AM

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