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Site name Flat Down, Crean Farm, St Buryan

Site number 1311

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4151 4153 4156 4161 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A disturbed round barrow with a retaining stone wall, with on the west side a cist 0.6m x 0.6m without a cover stone, containing earth in which was a coarse rim sherd and some ashes. More pottery and ashes and a few bone fragments were found in the east of the barrow. On the south side was an unopened cist full of very fine mud in which was lying a Beaker like vessel thought to be of the Bronze Age.

Remains/Period Y4

County Cornwall

Region SW

National grid square SW

X coordinate 420

Y coordinate 250

Bibliographic source Marsden 1922-25

Query

Site name	Flat Down, Crean Farm, St Buryan
Site number	1311
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4151 4153 4156 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A disturbed round barrow with a retaining stone wall, with on the west side a cist 0.6m x 0.6m without a cover stone, containing earth in which was a coarse rim sherd and some ashes. More pottery and ashes and a few bone fragments were found in the east of the barrow. On the south side was an unopened cist full of very fine mud in which was lying a Beaker like vessel thought to be of the Bronze Age.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Cornwall
Region	SW
National grid square	SW
X coordinate	420
Y coordinate	250
Bibliographic source	Marsden 1922-25