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Site name | Farway 31, Ball Hill |
Site number | 244 |
Burial codes | 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4110 4111 4121 4143 4152 4154 4156 4159 4171 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A flinty cairn under an earth mound, in the centre of which was an area paved with slabs, and a possible primary cremation interpreted as that of an adult and child. It was accompanied by a cylindrical bone bead of six segments (a copy of faience beads), and was all within a dome shaped circular cist, immediately surrounded by a circle of flints. There was an outer circle of spaced retaining flints on the outer lip of the ditch. A few feet into the mound a looped socketed bronze axe was found. [Kirwan D]. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Devon |
Region | SW |
National grid square | SY |
X coordinate | 174 |
Y coordinate | 945 |
Bibliographic source | Kirwan 1870, Fox 1948 |
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