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Site name Crug Yr Afan, Rhonnda
Site number 391
Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4129 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A round barrow, with ditch and a berm, and the centre being a mound of clayey soil containing small slabs of stone. A round cairn of medium-sized boulders was piled on top of a clayey mound, enclosed by a ring of upright stones. The central pit was cut into the subsoil, containing cremated bones, traces of (?)bark, and a model of an Early Bronze Age ogival grooved dagger in mineralised bone or similar (Cameron-Snowshill type).
Remains/Period Y4
County Mid Glamorgan
Region SW
National grid square SS
X coordinate 921
Y coordinate 954
Bibliographic source Parfitt 1903, Burgess 1962


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