Find Spot record 0122100001 - WYCOMBE CEMETERY

Summary

Iron Age pottery sherds found in excavation in the nineteenth century at Wycombe cemetery

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  • FINDSPOT (Undated)

Description

FROM 2ND LAYER WITHIN PIT, UNBURNT POTTERY FRAGMENTS. PARTLY RED, PARTLY BLACK, PARTLY UNBAKED & OF CELT IC MANUFACTURE. SEVERAL PIECES OF BLACK POTTERY WERE PUT TOGETHER & FORMED PRINCIPAL PORTION OF SMALL URN. ALSO FOUND ANIMAL BONES, FRAGMENT OF IRON & FLINT IMPLEMENTS (B1).
NO FINDS PRESERVED (B3).

Sources (3)

  • <1>SBC11509 Bibliographic reference: PARKER J 1873 EARLY HISTORY & ANTIQUITIES OF WYCOM BE P5.
  • <3>SBC6246 Bibliographic reference: J F Head. 1955. Early Man in South Buckinghamshire. pp66,156.
  • <5>SBC10628 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. OS RECORD CARD.

Location

Grid reference SU 86760 93500 (point)
Civil Parish HIGH WYCOMBE, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Finds (1)

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

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Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Intervention: (EBC11797)

Record last edited

Nov 22 2024 8:43PM

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