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Site name Charlton Horethorne 3, Sigwells III
Site number 297
Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4112 4128 4143 4152 4160 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A barrow with 1.8m below the top a primary cremation of an adult, a mass of burnt bones with scarcely any charcoal. 0.5m below this was a seam 10cm thick of burnt wood on a reddened floor, the site of the pyre. There were some fragments of burnt bone in the ash, and a 'chipped flint disc'. The fire had been lit on the original ground surface, and the pyre was supported by stakes. Two scrapers and many other flints were found, some burned. In the mound material a Beaker sherd was found.
Remains/Period Y4
County Somerset
Region SW
National grid square ST
X coordinate 640
Y coordinate 236
Bibliographic source Rolleston and Lane Fox 1879, Grinsell 1971


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