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Site name Pennard Burch, Fairwood Common

Site number 373

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4156 4161 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A round barrow, dug before 1855, and re-excavated in the early 1940s. A central cist was set into the original soil line and contained a cremation in an Abercromby Type 1 urn removed by the first excavation. The ground inside and around the cist was covered with fragments of charcoal, scattered after the building of the cist and before the stone heap was erected over the cist. No sign of the cist cover slab - possibly there was a corbelled cover. A stone ring encircled the stone heap and the space between was filled with grey clay mounded over the stone heap. Turf had been pitched over the cairn ring and the inner clay mound. The outer stone ring was built with clay capping it and the turf mound. Individual features were carefully made, but the whole structure lacked symmetry.

There was a cist in the north west quadrant of the inner cairn ring. The centre point of the turf mound was 2.4m west of the cairn ring circle centre. There had been no seeming secondary use.

Remains/Period Y4

County West Glamorgan

Region SW

National grid square SS

X coordinate 567

Y coordinate 914

Bibliographic source Williams 1944-45

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Site name	Pennard Burch, Fairwood Common
Site number	373
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4156 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A round barrow, dug before 1855, and re-excavated in the early 1940s. A central cist was set into the original soil line and contained a cremation in an Abercromby Type 1 urn removed by the first excavation. The ground inside and around the cist was covered with fragments of charcoal, scattered after the building of the cist and before the stone heap was erected over the cist. No sign of the cist cover slab - possibly there was a corbelled cover. A stone ring encircled the stone heap and the space between was filled with grey clay mounded over the stone heap. Turf had been pitched over the cairn ring and the inner clay mound. The outer stone ring was built with clay capping it and the turf mound. Individual features were carefully made, but the whole structure lacked symmetry. There was a cist in the north west quadrant of the inner cairn ring. The centre point of the turf mound was 2.4m west of the cairn ring circle centre. There had been no seeming secondary use.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	West Glamorgan
Region	SW
National grid square	SS
X coordinate	567
Y coordinate	914
Bibliographic source	Williams 1944-45