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Site name Challacombe 21, Chapman Barrows XI

Site number 248

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4107 4112 4128 4152 4153 4154 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A barrow containing the primary cremation of an adult probably well past middle age with charcoal and ashes in a pit roofed by two slabs, and covered by a small cairn, in or very near the centre of the barrow. Just east of the cairn was a small mound of burnt clay 0.3m high and 0.9m in diameter. All was covered and surrounded by a mound of turves which had overspread a drystone retaining wall. The mound was capped by subsoil material.

Remains/Period Y4

County Devon

Region SW

National grid square SS

X coordinate 700

Y coordinate 432

Bibliographic source Worth 1905, Grinsell 1970c

Query

Site name	Challacombe 21, Chapman Barrows XI
Site number	248
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4107 4112 4128 4152 4153 4154 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A barrow containing the primary cremation of an adult probably well past middle age with charcoal and ashes in a pit roofed by two slabs, and covered by a small cairn, in or very near the centre of the barrow. Just east of the cairn was a small mound of burnt clay 0.3m high and 0.9m in diameter. All was covered and surrounded by a mound of turves which had overspread a drystone retaining wall. The mound was capped by subsoil material.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Devon
Region	SW
National grid square	SS
X coordinate	700
Y coordinate	432
Bibliographic source	Worth 1905, Grinsell 1970c