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Site name Huntshaw 2, Darracott Moor

Site number 251

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4062 4075 4084 4092 4096 4104 4111 4123 4143 4152 4154 4156 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A barrow mound of clay capping over 18 alternate seams of earth and charcoal which covered a stone cairn c3.3m in diameter set slightly north east of centre and with a slightly sunk northern half. In the cairn and to the south, a rough cist contained a well preserved flat mass of damp leaves of oak and beech (a chaplet?). A little further to the south and covered by stones was a grooved bronze ogival dagger with three rivets lying on a flat stone with traces of decomposed wooden haft, point to east. There were traces of the primary cremation (bones, ashes and earth) in the stones above the cist. These grew in quantity as the cist was reached, but none appear to have been recorded as being in the cist.

Remains/Period Y4

County Devon

Region SW

National grid square SS

X coordinate 520

Y coordinate 216

Bibliographic source Doe 1875, Grinsell 1970c

Query

Site name	Huntshaw 2, Darracott Moor
Site number	251
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4062 4075 4084 4092 4096 4104 4111 4123 4143 4152 4154 4156 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A barrow mound of clay capping over 18 alternate seams of earth and charcoal which covered a stone cairn c3.3m in diameter set slightly north east of centre and with a slightly sunk northern half. In the cairn and to the south, a rough cist contained a well preserved flat mass of damp leaves of oak and beech (a chaplet?). A little further to the south and covered by stones was a grooved bronze ogival dagger with three rivets lying on a flat stone with traces of decomposed wooden haft, point to east. There were traces of the primary cremation (bones, ashes and earth) in the stones above the cist. These grew in quantity as the cist was reached, but none appear to have been recorded as being in the cist.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Devon
Region	SW
National grid square	SS
X coordinate	520
Y coordinate	216
Bibliographic source	Doe 1875, Grinsell 1970c