Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Treligga Common 1

Site number 208

Burial codes 4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4045 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4102 4104 4105 4111 4112 4122 4128 4143 4151 4153 4154 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A slate cairn covering near the centre two parcels of calcined and comminuted bone deposited in crannies in the bedrock. A ring of white quartz boulders defined the edge of the cairn. Two further deposits of bone on the east side. Up to five persons were represented by the remains. Burial 1 was of a cremated possibly female young adult. Burials 2 and 2a were of an adult and a female c17-25, and a bronze awl. Burial 3 was in a pit containing the cremated bones of an adult. Burial 4 was another cremated adult in a rock cut pit. Not all bones were represented in the deposits, and therefore not all the cremated human skeletal material was deposited given the quantities.

Remains/Period Y4

County Cornwall

Region SW

National grid square SX

X coordinate 44

Y coordinate 857

Bibliographic source Christie 1985

Query

Site name	Treligga Common 1
Site number	208
Burial codes	4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4045 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4102 4104 4105 4111 4112 4122 4128 4143 4151 4153 4154 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A slate cairn covering near the centre two parcels of calcined and comminuted bone deposited in crannies in the bedrock. A ring of white quartz boulders defined the edge of the cairn. Two further deposits of bone on the east side. Up to five persons were represented by the remains. Burial 1 was of a cremated possibly female young adult. Burials 2 and 2a were of an adult and a female c17-25, and a bronze awl. Burial 3 was in a pit containing the cremated bones of an adult. Burial 4 was another cremated adult in a rock cut pit. Not all bones were represented in the deposits, and therefore not all the cremated human skeletal material was deposited given the quantities.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Cornwall
Region	SW
National grid square	SX
X coordinate	44
Y coordinate	857
Bibliographic source	Christie 1985