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| 1714 of 1764 Document |
| Archive: | Manning | Unique ID: | 1721 | ||||||||
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Wytham | Item No.: | 28 | No. of Sheets: | 3 |
| Title: | Manuscript extract from publication: 'Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Archaeological Journal, Volume IV, pp.45 - 46' | ||||
| Content: | The author (unnamed) mentions visiting the gravel pit between Northfield Farm and Wytham Village where the excavations had uncovered six shallow pits in the gravel filled with black mould and mixed with fragments of pottery, bones and flint chips. The extract describes the pottery found there, including parts of British cinerary urns and possibly some drinking vessels as well as some Romano-British types. The bones were mostly boar or horse. He also found flint chips and an unfinished flint scraper. He mentions that human burials were found near to the spot between 1869 and 1878 and refers to notes on the subject in 'George Rolleston's Scientific Papers, Volume II, p.939'. They were apparently mostly pre-Roman in date. The author suggests that the pits he discovered were the rubbish pits of the people related to those buried nearby. | ||||
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