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Site name Nun's Cross Farm, Princetown
Site number 1335
Burial codes 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4053 4065 4071 4082 4091 4098 4129 4143 4152 4154 4156 4184
2500bc-14/1300bc A round barrow whose earth mound covered a rectangular cairn over a central cist in which there was a small cord-decorated Beaker like pot on its side, mouth to the NW in the SE angle of the cist. Otherwise there was no other find in the cist which was filled with soil mixed with a little charcoal. The pot contained no trace of bone or bone ash after microscopic examination.
Remains/Period N4
County Devon
Region SW
National grid square SX
X coordinate 590
Y coordinate 640
Bibliographic source Worth 1897


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