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S.H. 30.9.83.", "ContextType": "2a GRAVE", "BiblioSources": "(a) CBA Group 9 Newsletter (1979) 4-5\r\n(b) Allen (1981) 72-117", "Circumstances": "Found in 1978 when the ring-ditch was excavated, in advance of gravel extraction, by Bucks County Museum in association with the Abbey Field Centre Trust. The circular ditch (12 metres in diameter) was broken by four narrow causeways. Two superimposed graves were found in the centre of the monument. The primary grave was a rectangular flat-bottomed pit dug into the base of an ovoid shaft. The major part of the shaft had been disturbed by the digging of the secondary grave, but the rectangular pit itself was undisturbed. This contained traces of a wooden coffin, an antler spatula (6) and a flint fabricator (7). No skeletal material was found, and tests showed that the PH values of soil samples indicate that conditions were favourable for bone preservation had it originally existed. The secondary grave contained a crouched female inhumation accompanied by a bronze awl (1) a Beaker (2) a V-perforated conical shale button (3) flint implements (4), and a charred wooden object (5). Some evidence from the ditch silts suggests that the primary grave had been covered by a mound. The fill of the secondary grave further suggests that this was cut through the standing mound. A four-post structure may have existed on the site prior to the mound's construction. A substantial quantity of worked flint (8) came from the excavated area. Several pits and hollows surrounded the ditch. One, which appeared to have been used as a fire-pit, contained animal bones (9) and burnt clay (10) also many, unburned, flints of Late Neolithic date (11). Another pit contained Iron Age potsherds (12). Small sherds of coarse pottery (13) came from the ditch and 3 of the pits. None of them is diagnostic, except one rim sherd, which may come from a domestic beaker (14). Two sherds of shell - tempered pottery (15), the larger of which comes from a shouldered vessel found in a pit coned derive from an earlier Neolithic bowl, but the piece is too fragmentary for certainty.", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}, {"id": 148299, "created": "2020-09-20T00:05:58.263627", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 85324, "user_id": 658, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-09-20T00:27:41.165751", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "SP 8535 4895", "Site": "Buckinghamshire, Ravenstone, Ring Ditch", "CollHist": "Collection:\r\nBuckinghamshire County Museum\r\nL.301", "Contents": "Metal:\r\n(1) Bronze awl\r\n\r\nOther:\r\n(2) Beaker (Clarke's S2 Group).\r\n(3) V-perforated conical shale button.\r\n(4) Flint scraper, serrated blade and a flake.\r\n(5) Charred wooded object.\r\n(6) Antler spatula.\r\n(7) Flint fabricator.\r\n(8) Substantial quantity of worked flint.\r\n(9) Animal bones\r\n(10) Burnt clay\r\n(11) Flints of Late Neolithic date.\r\n(12) Iron Age potsherds.\r\n(13) Small sherds of coarse pottery (undiagnostic).\r\n(14) Rim-sherd, possibly from a domestic beaker.\r\n(15) Two sherds of shell-tempered pottery, the larger from a shouldered vessel which might possibly be from an \r\n        Early Neolithic bowl, but too fragmentary for certainty.", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec.: S.H. 30.9.83", "ContextType": "2a. Grave", "BiblioSources": "(a) \"CBA Group 9 Newletter\" (1979) 4-5\r\n(b) Allen (1981) 72-117", "Circumstances": "     Found in 1978 when the ring-ditch was excavated, in advance of gravel extraction, by Bucks County Museum in association with the Abbey Field Centre Trust. The circular ditch (12 metres in diameter) was broken by four narrow causeways. Two superimposed graves were found in the centre of the monument. The primary grave was a rectangular flat-bottomed pit dug into the base of an ovoid shaft. The major part of the shaft had been disturbed by the digging of the secondary grave, but the rectangular pit itself was undisturbed. This contained traces of a wooden coffin, an antler spatula (6) and a flint fabricator (7). No skeletal material was found, and tests showed that the pH values of soil samples indicate that conditions were favourable for bone preservation had it originally existed. The secondary grave contained a crouched female inhumation accompanied by a bronze awl (1), a Beaker (2), a V-perforated conical shale button (3), flint implements (4), and  a charred wooden object (5). Some evicence from the ditch silt suggests that the primary grave had been covered by a mound. The fill of the secondary grave further suggests that this was cut through the standing mound. A four-post structure may have existed on the site prior to the mound's construction. A substantial quantity of worked flint (8) came from the excavated area. Several pits and hollows surrounded the ditch. One, which appeared to have been used as a fire-pit, contained animal bones (9) and burnt clay (10); also many, unburned, flints of Late Neolithic date (11). Another pit contained Iron Age potsherds (12). Small sherds of coarse pottery (13) came from the ditch and 3 of the pits. None of them is diagnostic, except one rim sherd, which may come from a domestic beaker (14). Two sherds of shell tempered pottery (15), the larger of which comes from a shouldered vessel found in a pit could derive from an earlier Neolithic bowl, but the piece is too fragmentary for certainty.", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}]