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Site name | Chelm's Combe |
Site number | 10 |
Burial codes | 5002 5004 5006 5008 5021 5023 5026 5028 5030 5035 5042 5047 5051 5065 5075 5085 5098 5103 5107 5108 5109 5110 5128 5143 5151 5181 |
3500bc - 2500bc | Rock tomb below cave or rock shelter. Layer 4 of the rock shelter itself contained two round bottomed Neolithic bowls of the Windmill Hill type, an adult male skull c40 and the remains of a child c13. In the rock tomb rather below the rock shelter and measuring c0.9m square, was human skeletal material of 1 male, 1 child c6-7, 1 female, 1 child c9 and a foetus. |
Remains/Period | Y5 |
County | Somerset |
Region | SW |
National grid square | ST |
X coordinate | 465 |
Y coordinate | 543 |
Bibliographic source | Balch 1926, Dobson 1931, Kinnes 1979 |
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