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Site name Little Butterhole, Lelissick, Padstow
Site number 1322
Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4045 4051 4065 4075 4081 4091 4098 4104 4111 4121 4129 4143 4156 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A drystone wall cist with a cover slab, 0.6m x 0.5m x 0.5m deep, which contained an inverted oval-mouthed Beaker with a few finely comminuted bones. There were a few blue specks (beads?) among the earth which had sifted into the cist, but these could not be found when the urn was taken out. There was some evidence for a mound over the cist, retained by a stone kerb. The urn was dated to the later Middle Bronze Age, but the illustration if accurately drawn suggests an earlier form.
Remains/Period Y4
County Cornwall
Region SW
National grid square SW
X coordinate 920
Y coordinate 730
Bibliographic source Patchett 1953-54a


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