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Site name | Carnon Downs, Truro |
Site number | 1344 |
Burial codes | 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4128 4129 4141 4151 4154 4161 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A round barrow without ditch, the mound well built of alternate layers of clay and topsoil, with a central ring of stakeholes surrounding an area containing a low cairn of quartz stones but no pit. The cairn appeared to heavily burnt. The centre was disturbed, a small Bronze Age pot being thrown out by intruders. There was a secondary burial in the north west quadrant, accompanied by a spoon-like object or skillet. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Cornwall |
Region | SW |
National grid square | SW |
X coordinate | 797 |
Y coordinate | 404 |
Bibliographic source | Dudley 1969 |
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