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Site name Breach Farm, Llanblethian

Site number 388

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4062 4075 4084 4093 4098 4104 4111 4122 4124 4128 4141 4142 4152 4153 4161 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A composite turf and clay barrow with a mound covering a central burial pit and enclosed by a stone ring. The burial pit was oval, 0.7m across, and dug deep into the subsoil. An upper filling of clay covered a deposit of burnt bones of at least 3 individuals. The associated objects lay on top of the bones: a pygmy cup to the west and a bronze flanged axe, a bronze tanged chisel, a bronze dagger, an unidentifiable item, 13 barbed and tanged arrow heads of fine kind, 8 other flint implements, 2 unworked flints, and 2 sandstone 'arrow shaft' straighteners to the east side. There was a wood deposit (of willow) with the latter. The pit was covered by a central mound of clay, into which had been incorporated an irregular heap of turfy material, and which passed below the outer stone ring. There was a central clay heap of conical shape which covered the burial pit, 1m high, within the central clay mound. The outer stone ring had outer facing stones but an irregular inner face, and was built after the clay mound in an irregular circular fashion with some curved and some joining straight lengths.

Remains/Period Y4

County South Glamorgan

Region SW

National grid square SS

X coordinate 970

Y coordinate 738

Bibliographic source Grimes 1938, Fox 1959b

Query

Site name	Breach Farm, Llanblethian
Site number	388
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4062 4075 4084 4093 4098 4104 4111 4122 4124 4128 4141 4142 4152 4153 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A composite turf and clay barrow with a mound covering a central burial pit and enclosed by a stone ring. The burial pit was oval, 0.7m across, and dug deep into the subsoil. An upper filling of clay covered a deposit of burnt bones of at least 3 individuals. The associated objects lay on top of the bones: a pygmy cup to the west and a bronze flanged axe, a bronze tanged chisel, a bronze dagger, an unidentifiable item, 13 barbed and tanged arrow heads of fine kind, 8 other flint implements, 2 unworked flints, and 2 sandstone 'arrow shaft' straighteners to the east side. There was a wood deposit (of willow) with the latter. The pit was covered by a central mound of clay, into which had been incorporated an irregular heap of turfy material, and which passed below the outer stone ring. There was a central clay heap of conical shape which covered the burial pit, 1m high, within the central clay mound. The outer stone ring had outer facing stones but an irregular inner face, and was built after the clay mound in an irregular circular fashion with some curved and some joining straight lengths.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	South Glamorgan
Region	SW
National grid square	SS
X coordinate	970
Y coordinate	738
Bibliographic source	Grimes 1938, Fox 1959b