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Site name Davidstow Moor, Site III(8)

Site number 199

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4027 4030 4032 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4101 4106 4112 4122 4125 4143 4152 4154 4181 4200

2500bc-14/1300bc A disc barrow constructed on the old land surface, with a central burial cairn of quartz stones. 'On a low cairn of stones...and wedged up by some of its upper stones was found a deposit of calcined bones...intimately combined with a mass of peaty roots...under it on either side a utility stone or hone of granite...' (C K Croft Andrew quoted by Christie 1988). The cairn and burial were covered by the turf of the barrow mound. The cremation was of one possibly male adult c25-35. There was some animal bone, including pig, found in fragments, 6 of which were burnt. Entrance to the enclosure was through a gap in the bank at the east.. There was a 'heavily trodden area' around the cairn. There was an unusual clay mound overlying a shallow portion of the ditch, with flints and evidence of fires on its surface, opposite the gap in the bank. This was the possible sealing off of the burial barrow.

RC: from charcoal on old land surface at centre HAR-6640 1790 +/- 90

Remains/Period Y4

County Cornwall

Region SW

National grid square SX

X coordinate 148

Y coordinate 884

Bibliographic source Christie 1988

Query

Site name	Davidstow Moor, Site III(8)
Site number	199
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4027 4030 4032 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4101 4106 4112 4122 4125 4143 4152 4154 4181 4200
2500bc-14/1300bc	A disc barrow constructed on the old land surface, with a central burial cairn of quartz stones. 'On a low cairn of stones...and wedged up by some of its upper stones was found a deposit of calcined bones...intimately combined with a mass of peaty roots...under it on either side a utility stone or hone of granite...' (C K Croft Andrew quoted by Christie 1988). The cairn and burial were covered by the turf of the barrow mound. The cremation was of one possibly male adult c25-35. There was some animal bone, including pig, found in fragments, 6 of which were burnt. Entrance to the enclosure was through a gap in the bank at the east.. There was a 'heavily trodden area' around the cairn. There was an unusual clay mound overlying a shallow portion of the ditch, with flints and evidence of fires on its surface, opposite the gap in the bank. This was the possible sealing off of the burial barrow. RC: from charcoal on old land surface at centre HAR-6640 1790 +/- 90
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Cornwall
Region	SW
National grid square	SX
X coordinate	148
Y coordinate	884
Bibliographic source	Christie 1988