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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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