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Site name Tarrant Launceston 5, Launceston Down

Site number 751

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4071 4084 4098 4104 4111 4124 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4182

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with mound of large flints covering a nearly central D-shaped grave pit 1.8m x 1.35m x 0.7m deep. The top fill was yellow earth and stones, the lower fill clean chalk rubble covering a skeleton oriented head to NNE, crouched, on its left side, the skull trephinated in the left parietal and unhealed. By the right tibia was a Bi Beaker on its side, a worked flint flake by the feet. A roughly made burnt flint pick was found in the chalk rubble. A secondary cremation was dug partly into the north corner of the grave pit.

Remains/Period Y4

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square ST

X coordinate 957

Y coordinate 106

Bibliographic source Piggott 1940b, Piggott and Piggott 1944

Query

Site name	Tarrant Launceston 5, Launceston Down
Site number	751
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4071 4084 4098 4104 4111 4124 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4182
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with mound of large flints covering a nearly central D-shaped grave pit 1.8m x 1.35m x 0.7m deep. The top fill was yellow earth and stones, the lower fill clean chalk rubble covering a skeleton oriented head to NNE, crouched, on its left side, the skull trephinated in the left parietal and unhealed. By the right tibia was a Bi Beaker on its side, a worked flint flake by the feet. A roughly made burnt flint pick was found in the chalk rubble. A secondary cremation was dug partly into the north corner of the grave pit.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	957
Y coordinate	106
Bibliographic source	Piggott 1940b, Piggott and Piggott 1944