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Site name | Denzell Down A, Mawgan in Pydar |
Site number | 174 |
Burial codes | 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4029 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4083 4093 4096 4104 4111 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | Large barrow excavated by Copeland Borlase, with a mound of different coloured soil strata. At 1.5m depth in the exact centre was a deposit of very small chippings of burnt bones and ashes mixed with yellow clay. 0.9m west of this and at the same level was a similar deposit. On the barrow floor at 2.7m depth and 0.9m NW of centre was a large deposit of burnt bone and ashes in a slight pit. Lying in the midst of the bones was a small one-handled Beaker vessel with turf covering its mouth and containing some of the bone, related to late handled Beakers. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Cornwall |
Region | SW |
National grid square | SW |
X coordinate | 902 |
Y coordinate | 672 |
Bibliographic source | Borlase 1872, Hencken 1932 |
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