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Site name Glendorgal, Newquay
Site number 221
Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4037 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4081 4092 4104 4111 4128 4152 4153 4156 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A barrow with an outer ring wall of oval shape oriented NE/SW, 0.6m high. The central area of the barrow was destroyed by flagpole foundations. The mound was composed of local slate, sandstone, and thick whitish soil, and the barrow was capped with small stones and shillet. There was some evidence for the preparatory levelling of the old ground surface.

There were two pits in the north east quadrant, one cut and refilled, the other small and covered by a slate slab streaked with iron oxide. It contained little quartz pebbles, and broken flint fragments; its bottom and sides were stained. In the south east quadrant were several miniature cists containing similar deposits. A secondary burial was found in 1850, comprising a bucket shaped urn of the Early or Middle Bronze Age which contained human skeletal material with black earth and ashes. It had been inverted in a pit scraped in the shillet. Around the mouth of the hole were 4 shale slabs and a slab was laid on top as a cover to the urn.

A stone adze was found against the inner face of the ring wall, and a cupped pebble was found immediately adjacent to the barrow.
Remains/Period Y4
County Cornwall
Region SW
National grid square SW
X coordinate 825
Y coordinate 627
Bibliographic source Dudley 1962


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