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Site name Davidstow Moor, Site XXIV (16/23)

Site number 203

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4037 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4112 4128 4143 4151 4152 4157 4161 4181 4200

2500bc-14/1300bc A round barrow built of turf and clayey soil, disturbed at the centre by ploughing. A layer of stones, mostly quartz, was set directly on the barrow floor on the old turf line, with some fine charcoal beneath, in the south east and probably north east quadrants. It was unclear whether the layer originally covered the whole floor. F1 was a broken pot of early Trevisker ware with a scattering of cremated human skeletal material probably of one adult, found in the central hollow. A grave pit 1.8m x 0.53m in the south east quadrant contained loose slightly darkened yellow 'shillety' soils with quartz lumps in and on this fill.. There was a dark streak of (?)silt halfway down and a similar dark layer on the bottom: possible evidence for a coffin burial? There was a large quantity of lithic material but little was stratified, and 8 perforated/marked slates, three of which occurred in the north east side of the barrow.

RC: from the fine charcoal under the stone layer HAR-8098 1490 +/- 100

Remains/Period Y4

County Cornwall

Region SW

National grid square SX

X coordinate 148

Y coordinate 884

Bibliographic source Christie 1988

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Site name	Davidstow Moor, Site XXIV (16/23)
Site number	203
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4037 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4112 4128 4143 4151 4152 4157 4161 4181 4200
2500bc-14/1300bc	A round barrow built of turf and clayey soil, disturbed at the centre by ploughing. A layer of stones, mostly quartz, was set directly on the barrow floor on the old turf line, with some fine charcoal beneath, in the south east and probably north east quadrants. It was unclear whether the layer originally covered the whole floor. F1 was a broken pot of early Trevisker ware with a scattering of cremated human skeletal material probably of one adult, found in the central hollow. A grave pit 1.8m x 0.53m in the south east quadrant contained loose slightly darkened yellow 'shillety' soils with quartz lumps in and on this fill.. There was a dark streak of (?)silt halfway down and a similar dark layer on the bottom: possible evidence for a coffin burial? There was a large quantity of lithic material but little was stratified, and 8 perforated/marked slates, three of which occurred in the north east side of the barrow. RC: from the fine charcoal under the stone layer HAR-8098 1490 +/- 100
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Cornwall
Region	SW
National grid square	SX
X coordinate	148
Y coordinate	884
Bibliographic source	Christie 1988