The Celtic World (Routledge Worlds)

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Figure 26.2 Inhumation burials: deposits 28, 29, 30 in P829, Danebury. (Photo: Mike
Rouillard, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford University.)


of partial bodies and skulls, and numerous single (complete or fragmentary) bones,
with skull fragments and longbones from the right side of the body predominating.
The iron age site at Stanton Harcourt Gravelly Guyon the river Thames gravel
terraces in Oxfordshire appears to be a typical open, undefended agricultural village
duri.ng the Iron Age, with continued occupation from the Middle Iron Age into the
early Roman period (Lambrick forthcoming). At least 70 individuals are represented,
of whom 5 I are infants (Wait in Lambrick forthcoming). There were 28 complete
inhumations (23 infants, I child of 4-5 years, 3 adult females and I adult male), I
single skull (an adult male), and 28 occurrences of infant bones (at least some of
which are unrecognized burials), I adult male and I adult female longbone, and I I
unsexed adult bones. The adult burials were crouched, with 3 on the right side and


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