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Site name Zennor Quoit, Zennor
Site number 168
Burial codes 4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4032 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4085 4092 4098 4104 4111 4129 4143 4152 4153 4155 4159 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc Round barrow covering a megalithic chamber with a stone facade, oriented E. The tomb was completely closed. Main chamber was paved to double thickness, and below this paving was found a whetstone like that of Tregaseal (Site 6) and typical of Early Bronze Age graves with metal daggers. There were fragments of corded ware pottery in the chamber. In the eastern half of the main chamber was cremated human skeletal material, flints and sherds of 2 small pots (Wessex II?) in a little hollow in the floor (all found in 1910).
Remains/Period Y4
County Cornwall
Region SW
National grid square SW
X coordinate 469
Y coordinate 380
Bibliographic source Borlase 1872, Hencken 1932


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