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Site name | Nine Maidens Barrows, St Buryan |
Site number | 169 |
Burial codes | 4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4121 4143 4151 4152 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | Two barrows close by Nine Maidens stone circle at Boscawen-un. One covered two piles of cremated bones and some small bits of bronze. The other held two pots, one large and one small biconical type, and a broken saddle quern. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Cornwall |
Region | SW |
National grid square | SW |
X coordinate | 412 |
Y coordinate | 274 |
Bibliographic source | Hencken 1932 |
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