Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Carn Brae

Site number 5

Burial codes 5002 5004 5021 5023 5026 5028 5030 5035 5036 5041 5045 5051 5075 5084 5098 5104 5111 5127 5128 5143 5151 5181 5200

3500bc - 2500bc Stone walled enclosure. Calcined bone survived in small quantities in layer 3 of extra-mural ditch (site J) in two places. Also F20 (a soil dug feature outside ditch in J) contained 'dark charcoaliferous fill containing a few tiny fragments of calcined bone and some carbonised hazelnut shells'. In the ditch above the initial band of relatively clean and almost sterile silting was a thick deposit of dark brown greasy soil with a high charcoal fleck content and a very substantial number of artefacts including greenstone axe fragments and much pottery in fresh unabraded condition. Ditch fills of domestic debris resembled those found at Hambledon (Site 55). Site soil did not generally preserve bone.

RC: from carbon BM-823 2611 +/-47, BM-824 2747 +/-60, BM-825 3049 +/-64

Remains/Period Y5

County Cornwall

Region SW

National grid square SW

X coordinate 685

Y coordinate 407

Bibliographic source Kinnes 1979, Mercer 1981

Query

Site name	Carn Brae
Site number	5
Burial codes	5002 5004 5021 5023 5026 5028 5030 5035 5036 5041 5045 5051 5075 5084 5098 5104 5111 5127 5128 5143 5151 5181 5200
3500bc - 2500bc	Stone walled enclosure. Calcined bone survived in small quantities in layer 3 of extra-mural ditch (site J) in two places. Also F20 (a soil dug feature outside ditch in J) contained 'dark charcoaliferous fill containing a few tiny fragments of calcined bone and some carbonised hazelnut shells'. In the ditch above the initial band of relatively clean and almost sterile silting was a thick deposit of dark brown greasy soil with a high charcoal fleck content and a very substantial number of artefacts including greenstone axe fragments and much pottery in fresh unabraded condition. Ditch fills of domestic debris resembled those found at Hambledon (Site 55). Site soil did not generally preserve bone. RC: from carbon BM-823 2611 +/-47, BM-824 2747 +/-60, BM-825 3049 +/-64
Remains/Period	Y5
County	Cornwall
Region	SW
National grid square	SW
X coordinate	685
Y coordinate	407
Bibliographic source	Kinnes 1979, Mercer 1981