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| 1505 of 1764 Document |
| Archive: | Manning | Unique ID: | 1667 | ||||||||
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Wittenham | Item No.: | 20 | No. of Sheets: | 2 |
| Title: | Notes | ||||
| Content: | Two pages of notes detailing artefacts and archaeological features found at Northfield Farm, Long Wittenham. Includes crop marks (discusses the various shapes visible), five Late Celtic urns found in a well along with a fragment of Samian ware and other Romano-British pottery, a second well in which was found a flint arrow head and human bones along with a leather cuirass and more Romano-British pottery, a rubbish pit in which was found human and animal bones as well as flint flakes and pot boilers, and a second pit in which was found three burial urns with charred bones. Also mentions that when one of the circular shapes in the crop marks was excavated, an icthyosaurus bone, a flint saw, a female skeleton and a flnit knife were discovered. | ||||
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