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Site name | Harlyn Bay A, Bloodhound Cove, St Merryn |
Site number | 222 |
Burial codes | 4005 4021 4025 4028 4030 4035 4053 4152 4153 4161 4184 4200 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | At the cliff edge a small mound covered a biconical urn of Trevisker I type placed in a flat bottomed hole dug into sand and slate bedrock. The urn was filled with brown sandy earth and stone, but there was no cremated or other human skeletal material. Oak charcoal filled the excavated hole below the urn. A slate capstone covered the deposit, and in turn was covered by a mound, of slate at its base, but then the bulk being sandy clay with a possible quartz pebble capping. The mound was perhaps 3-4m in diameter and 0.35m high. RC: BM-2472 1510 +/- 70 |
Remains/Period | N4 |
County | Cornwall |
Region | SW |
National grid square | SW |
X coordinate | 875 |
Y coordinate | 755 |
Bibliographic source | Preston-Jones and Rose 1987 |
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