Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

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Site name Otterham 1

Site number 223

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4037 4041 4045 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4128 4141 4152 4154 4159 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A partially destroyed bell barrow with a central oval pit c1.8m x 1.2m cut in the original ground surface containing a probable cremation. The pit was covered by a small mound 3.6m in diameter of alternate grey stone and yellow soil layers. A cupped pebble was found in the turves covering this inner mound. 0.3m from the edging stones was a ring of small stake holes. Close to one was found a fragment of calcined bone, a flint scrap and a sprinkle of charcoal. A large cairn was built over the whole from small stones of local grit and quartz. There were no secondary burials. Over the cairn was a turf layer and a layer of small stones, followed by a thick soil layer and then turf, and then finally subsoil from the ditch. Flints and artefacts were found in the cairn. There was an outer stake ring at the inner edge of the berm, and an inner ring enclosing the central mound over the burial pit..

Remains/Period Y4

County Cornwall

Region SW

National grid square SX

X coordinate 176

Y coordinate 941

Bibliographic source Dudley 1961, Grinsell 1994

Query

Site name	Otterham 1
Site number	223
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4037 4041 4045 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4128 4141 4152 4154 4159 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A partially destroyed bell barrow with a central oval pit c1.8m x 1.2m cut in the original ground surface containing a probable cremation. The pit was covered by a small mound 3.6m in diameter of alternate grey stone and yellow soil layers. A cupped pebble was found in the turves covering this inner mound. 0.3m from the edging stones was a ring of small stake holes. Close to one was found a fragment of calcined bone, a flint scrap and a sprinkle of charcoal. A large cairn was built over the whole from small stones of local grit and quartz. There were no secondary burials. Over the cairn was a turf layer and a layer of small stones, followed by a thick soil layer and then turf, and then finally subsoil from the ditch. Flints and artefacts were found in the cairn. There was an outer stake ring at the inner edge of the berm, and an inner ring enclosing the central mound over the burial pit..
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Cornwall
Region	SW
National grid square	SX
X coordinate	176
Y coordinate	941
Bibliographic source	Dudley 1961, Grinsell 1994