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Site name Trelan Bahow, St Keverne

Site number 1249

Burial codes 1002 1005 1021 1023 1025 1028 1030 1032 1042 1046 1051 1065 1072 1084 1093 1098 1104 1111 1121 1122 1123 1128 1143 1156 1181

100bc-AD43 Several cist graves each of 6 slabs set on edge with cover stones were in a group c0.6-9m below the present surface, oriented nearly EW. There is no mention of human remains (it is presumed the inhumations had completely decayed), but in one cist was found a bronze mirror, several beads of vitreous substance (one blue, the other of black and grey striations), 'some rings of brass strongly gilded' and other bronze articles including fibulae. There were also several implements of hard ironstone, the shape of a wedge and a hammer. The date of the group is supposed as cAD43, from the mirror and a La Tene III fibula.

Remains/Period Y1

County Cornwall

Region SW

National grid square SW

X coordinate 747

Y coordinate 198

Bibliographic source Jope Rogers 1871-73, 1873, Smith 1909, Jope and Wilson 1957, Fox 1958, Dowson 1970, Spratling 1970a, Whimster 1981

Query

Site name	Trelan Bahow, St Keverne
Site number	1249
Burial codes	1002 1005 1021 1023 1025 1028 1030 1032 1042 1046 1051 1065 1072 1084 1093 1098 1104 1111 1121 1122 1123 1128 1143 1156 1181
100bc-AD43	Several cist graves each of 6 slabs set on edge with cover stones were in a group c0.6-9m below the present surface, oriented nearly EW. There is no mention of human remains (it is presumed the inhumations had completely decayed), but in one cist was found a bronze mirror, several beads of vitreous substance (one blue, the other of black and grey striations), 'some rings of brass strongly gilded' and other bronze articles including fibulae. There were also several implements of hard ironstone, the shape of a wedge and a hammer. The date of the group is supposed as cAD43, from the mirror and a La Tene III fibula.
Remains/Period	Y1
County	Cornwall
Region	SW
National grid square	SW
X coordinate	747
Y coordinate	198
Bibliographic source	Jope Rogers 1871-73, 1873, Smith 1909, Jope and Wilson 1957, Fox 1958, Dowson 1970, Spratling 1970a, Whimster 1981