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Site name Little Gaviregan Barrow

Site number 1256

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4024 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4153 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4129 4143 4153 4161 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc The site comprised a turf mound, a continuous peripheral ditch and an annular stony bank. In Phase 1 the inner bank and ditch pre-dated the mound, and enclosed a central pavement of quartz rubble. There were fragments of small posts and stakes on the floor of the ditch and leaf mould. A number of pits (two very large as if for stones or totems) and post-holes were then dug on the north side of the site for an unknown purpose, and the ditch recut.

Two small pits on the east side contained the upper half (deliberately half) of a degraded collared urn containing a cremation deposit, and an unusual cup-like vessel with an open mouth and base, and a central perforated plate. Both were from local clays. The first was at the edge of the mound.

In Phase 2 the bank was partly levelled, the ditch was backfilled and the turf barrow made. There were a number of flint artefacts in the mound material.

Remains/Period Y4

County Cornwall

Region SW

National grid square SW

X coordinate 929

Y coordinate 591

Bibliographic source Nowakowski 1993

Query

Site name	Little Gaviregan Barrow
Site number	1256
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4024 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4153 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4129 4143 4153 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	The site comprised a turf mound, a continuous peripheral ditch and an annular stony bank. In Phase 1 the inner bank and ditch pre-dated the mound, and enclosed a central pavement of quartz rubble. There were fragments of small posts and stakes on the floor of the ditch and leaf mould. A number of pits (two very large as if for stones or totems) and post-holes were then dug on the north side of the site for an unknown purpose, and the ditch recut. Two small pits on the east side contained the upper half (deliberately half) of a degraded collared urn containing a cremation deposit, and an unusual cup-like vessel with an open mouth and base, and a central perforated plate. Both were from local clays. The first was at the edge of the mound. In Phase 2 the bank was partly levelled, the ditch was backfilled and the turf barrow made. There were a number of flint artefacts in the mound material.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Cornwall
Region	SW
National grid square	SW
X coordinate	929
Y coordinate	591
Bibliographic source	Nowakowski 1993