Woman in Berkshire Quarry

The woman in the Berkshire Quarry is a woman at least 35 years old who lived about 4,500 years ago. Their bones were found in the Kingsmead Quarry in Horton near Windsor in Berkshire by Wessex Archeology. Around her neck she wore a chain of gold tubes and black lignite discs . A bell jar lay on her hip. Amber buttons with a V-shaped perforation were found in the area. It is a stool burial with the head facing south.

The grave was dated in the bell-cup culture through the bell beaker and the other additions .

The excavations were financed by the quarry operator CEMEX . Early Neolithic houses are also known from the same site

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^ Archaeological find in Windsor: The skeleton with the gold chain. on: Spiegel Online. April 22, 2013.
↑ Karen Nichols: Four early Neolithic houses (3700 BC) have been unearthed by archaeologists at CEMEX's Kingsmead Quarry, Horton in Berkshire. on: heritagedaily.com , March 6, 2013.

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SURNAME	Berkshire, woman in the quarry of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	archaeological find
DATE OF BIRTH	after 2500 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	before 2200 BC Chr.

[1] Archaeological find in Windsor: The skeleton with the gold chain. on: Spiegel Online. April 22, 2013.

[2] Karen Nichols: Four early Neolithic houses (3700 BC) have been unearthed by archaeologists at CEMEX's Kingsmead Quarry, Horton in Berkshire. on: heritagedaily.com , March 6, 2013.