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Site name Farway 24, Seven-Barrow-Field

Site number 242

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4123 4143 4152 4159 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A round barrow with ditch, with a mound of clay and earth or peat irregularly stratified. At its base was a pavement of flints 3.9m x 2.7m set in clay on a levelled surface, spread with charcoal of burnt brushwood and furze, and on it was centrally placed an assumed primary deposit of burnt bones. Immediately above this was a fine decorated and handled shale cup, which had been turned on a pole lathe. In the charcoal were nodules of red ochre and iron pyrites in amounts suggesting deliberate collection. [Kirwan A].

Remains/Period Y4

County Devon

Region SW

National grid square SY

X coordinate 171

Y coordinate 944

Bibliographic source Kirwan 1867-8, 1868, Fox 1949

Query

Site name	Farway 24, Seven-Barrow-Field
Site number	242
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4123 4143 4152 4159 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A round barrow with ditch, with a mound of clay and earth or peat irregularly stratified. At its base was a pavement of flints 3.9m x 2.7m set in clay on a levelled surface, spread with charcoal of burnt brushwood and furze, and on it was centrally placed an assumed primary deposit of burnt bones. Immediately above this was a fine decorated and handled shale cup, which had been turned on a pole lathe. In the charcoal were nodules of red ochre and iron pyrites in amounts suggesting deliberate collection. [Kirwan A].
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Devon
Region	SW
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	171
Y coordinate	944
Bibliographic source	Kirwan 1867-8, 1868, Fox 1949