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Site name | East Putford 7a |
Site number | 258 |
Burial codes | 4002 4005 4021 4024 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4052 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4097 4104 4111 4128 4142 4152 4163 4167 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | Round barrow of turf on the original ground surface, and capped by surface soil. For 2.4m either side of the assumed centre was a greyish layer up to 0.3m thick, with a scalloped appearance above and below, suggesting a series of hollowed tree trunks, flattened by decay and mound pressure. The northern edge was delimited by a line of three 25cm posts from which the layer extended 1.8m south. Probably 8 inhumations, each in a hollowed tree trunk laid side by side, covered by a mortuary house of one north wall with a lean-to roof to the south. The tree trunks were laid on a slight mound of turves. There was no ditch, and no artefacts were found. (Radford and Rogers Barrow II). |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Devon |
Region | SW |
National grid square | SS |
X coordinate | 384 |
Y coordinate | 174 |
Bibliographic source | Radford and Rogers 1947, Grinsell 1970c |
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