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Site name | Whitestaunton 1, Northay A |
Site number | 310 |
Burial codes | 3005 3009 3022 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3065 3075 3081 3084 3092 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3152 3156 3161 3173 3181 |
14/1300bc-8/700bc | Round barrow with inner stone ring encircling a cist containing some ashes. A large rock was set up on the east side around which were grouped 'a great number of sepulchral urns inverted and standing on square tiles of lighter clay'. |
Remains/Period | Y3 |
County | Somerset |
Region | SW |
National grid square | ST |
X coordinate | 281 |
Y coordinate | 115 |
Bibliographic source | Elton 1882, Grinsell 1969 |
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