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Site name Halwill 1, Barrow Park Tolly Field

Site number 249

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4159 4161 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A round barrow, on the original surface of which there was a platform 3.6m long x 1.8m wide x 0.3m thick of small flat stones with signs of firing. The platform was strewn with fibrous wood charcoal like that of furze, and wood ashes. Nearby was a pit 1.35m x 0.9m x 1.2m deep dug out of the subsoil and full of earth mixed with fragments of calcined animal bones. The barrow mound was of stiff clay, and the clay above the platform was burnt so hard as to be like pottery. Some 5-7cm above the original surface were a few possibly urn potsherds and a few bones. An amber pendant bead was found 0.4m below the surface at the top centre of the barrow. Above that horizon was a capping of fibrous wood charcoal 2.1m long and 8-10cm thick.

Remains/Period Y4

County Devon

Region SW

National grid square SS

X coordinate 432

Y coordinate 1

Bibliographic source Burnard 1896, Grinsell 1970c

Query

Site name	Halwill 1, Barrow Park Tolly Field
Site number	249
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4159 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A round barrow, on the original surface of which there was a platform 3.6m long x 1.8m wide x 0.3m thick of small flat stones with signs of firing. The platform was strewn with fibrous wood charcoal like that of furze, and wood ashes. Nearby was a pit 1.35m x 0.9m x 1.2m deep dug out of the subsoil and full of earth mixed with fragments of calcined animal bones. The barrow mound was of stiff clay, and the clay above the platform was burnt so hard as to be like pottery. Some 5-7cm above the original surface were a few possibly urn potsherds and a few bones. An amber pendant bead was found 0.4m below the surface at the top centre of the barrow. Above that horizon was a capping of fibrous wood charcoal 2.1m long and 8-10cm thick.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Devon
Region	SW
National grid square	SS
X coordinate	432
Y coordinate	1
Bibliographic source	Burnard 1896, Grinsell 1970c