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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Bant's Carn, St Mary's 2, H2, D3

Site number 1

Burial codes 5002 5005 5022 5023 5025 5028 5030 5032 5041 5048 5051 5053 5065 5075 5085 5092 5094 5104 5111 5128 5155 5181 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4032 4085 4143 4155 4184 3005 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3032 3085 3143 3155 3184

3500bc - 2500bc Chambered passage grave surrounded by an extension or collar platform c3.3m wide, and oriented ENE. At the inner end of the chamber were four piles of cremated human bones (of this period or later?). Broken pottery of Eastern Neolithic type and biconical urn fragments were in the passage. Pieces of pottery of Neolithic round-based kind were found outside the entrance to the chamber.

2500bc-14/1300bc Biconical urn fragments were in the passage.

14/1300bc-8/700bc The assemblage of pottery discovered in the 1970 restorative excavations conformed to the types found at other chambered tombs on Scilly, being from barrel, biconical and bucket vessels, some with lugs. Many sherds displayed massive exterior sooting, comparable with that on the pottery at the settlement site of Halangy Porth (where no human skeletal material was found).

Remains/Period Y5 N4 N3

County Scilly

Region SW

National grid square SV

X coordinate 910

Y coordinate 123

Bibliographic source Hencken 1932, 1933a, Ashbee 1963b, 1974, 1976, 1982

Query

Site name	Bant's Carn, St Mary's 2, H2, D3
Site number	1
Burial codes	5002 5005 5022 5023 5025 5028 5030 5032 5041 5048 5051 5053 5065 5075 5085 5092 5094 5104 5111 5128 5155 5181 4005 4022 4023 4025 4028 4030 4032 4085 4143 4155 4184 3005 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3032 3085 3143 3155 3184
3500bc - 2500bc	Chambered passage grave surrounded by an extension or collar platform c3.3m wide, and oriented ENE. At the inner end of the chamber were four piles of cremated human bones (of this period or later?). Broken pottery of Eastern Neolithic type and biconical urn fragments were in the passage. Pieces of pottery of Neolithic round-based kind were found outside the entrance to the chamber.
2500bc-14/1300bc	Biconical urn fragments were in the passage.
14/1300bc-8/700bc	The assemblage of pottery discovered in the 1970 restorative excavations conformed to the types found at other chambered tombs on Scilly, being from barrel, biconical and bucket vessels, some with lugs. Many sherds displayed massive exterior sooting, comparable with that on the pottery at the settlement site of Halangy Porth (where no human skeletal material was found).
Remains/Period	Y5 N4 N3
County	Scilly
Region	SW
National grid square	SV
X coordinate	910
Y coordinate	123
Bibliographic source	Hencken 1932, 1933a, Ashbee 1963b, 1974, 1976, 1982