Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

Background to the Gazetteer | Table of Contents

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 Tarrant Launceston 7, Launceston Down

Site number 753

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4129 4143 4152 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A bowl barrow with a mound of earth and stones covering a central oval pit 2.25m x 1.5m x 0.9m deep, filled with earth and chalk rubble and fragmentary bones of a skeleton. A small degenerate A Beaker was in the stones in the upper part of the filling. There was evidence of disturbance.

Remains/Period Y4

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square ST

X coordinate 958

Y coordinate 106

Bibliographic source Piggott and Piggott 1944

Query

Site name	Tarrant Launceston 7, Launceston Down
Site number	753
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4129 4143 4152 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A bowl barrow with a mound of earth and stones covering a central oval pit 2.25m x 1.5m x 0.9m deep, filled with earth and chalk rubble and fragmentary bones of a skeleton. A small degenerate A Beaker was in the stones in the upper part of the filling. There was evidence of disturbance.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	958
Y coordinate	106
Bibliographic source	Piggott and Piggott 1944