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Site name St Catherine 1, Charmy Down, Tumpy Field

Site number 279

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4045 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4104 4111 4121 4124 4143 4152 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc Pitched stone mound enclosed by an incomplete ring of large boulders. Under the mound was a small heap of earth and rubble. Under this, to the south of the centre was a primary burial pit containing a compact filling of small stones with little soil beneath which was a small quantity of cremated bones of one individual, a small broken shale ring with perforations, a scrap of pottery and a shale bead. There were some charcoal fragments. [Barrow 3].

Remains/Period Y4

County Somerset

Region SW

National grid square ST

X coordinate 762

Y coordinate 703

Bibliographic source Grimes 1960a

Query

Site name	St Catherine 1, Charmy Down, Tumpy Field
Site number	279
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4045 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4104 4111 4121 4124 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	Pitched stone mound enclosed by an incomplete ring of large boulders. Under the mound was a small heap of earth and rubble. Under this, to the south of the centre was a primary burial pit containing a compact filling of small stones with little soil beneath which was a small quantity of cremated bones of one individual, a small broken shale ring with perforations, a scrap of pottery and a shale bead. There were some charcoal fragments. [Barrow 3].
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Somerset
Region	SW
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	762
Y coordinate	703
Bibliographic source	Grimes 1960a