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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 Bulleigh Meadow, Marldon

Site number 1390

Burial codes 4002 4006 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4097 4104 4110 4111 4128 4143 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A curving ditch (620) and seven cremations belonged to the Late Neolithic activity on this site, one of the cremations (628) being cut into the inside edge of the ditch whilst it was still only partially infilled.

A total of seven pits containing cremations (607, 614, 616, 618, 622, 624, and 628) were discovered. These were of, respectively, a probable adult, an indeterminate person, an adult or adolescent, an adult, and three probable adults, with no sexes determinable. Four of these formed an intercutting cluster just on the inside of the curving ditch, one cut into the side of the ditch, and two were in small isolated pits in the same general area. The bones had been collected as heavily burnt bone fragments and tightly packed into small pits. The cremations themselves could not be dated, and the sole link is the one cutting the ditch.

RC: from carbon in ditch upper fill HAR-10194 2515 +/-115 and HAR-10193 2645 +/-115

Remains/Period Y4

County Devon

Region SW

National grid square SX

X coordinate 863

Y coordinate 658

Bibliographic source Berridge and Simpson 1992

Query

Site name	Bulleigh Meadow, Marldon
Site number	1390
Burial codes	4002 4006 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4097 4104 4110 4111 4128 4143 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A curving ditch (620) and seven cremations belonged to the Late Neolithic activity on this site, one of the cremations (628) being cut into the inside edge of the ditch whilst it was still only partially infilled. A total of seven pits containing cremations (607, 614, 616, 618, 622, 624, and 628) were discovered. These were of, respectively, a probable adult, an indeterminate person, an adult or adolescent, an adult, and three probable adults, with no sexes determinable. Four of these formed an intercutting cluster just on the inside of the curving ditch, one cut into the side of the ditch, and two were in small isolated pits in the same general area. The bones had been collected as heavily burnt bone fragments and tightly packed into small pits. The cremations themselves could not be dated, and the sole link is the one cutting the ditch. RC: from carbon in ditch upper fill HAR-10194 2515 +/-115 and HAR-10193 2645 +/-115
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Devon
Region	SW
National grid square	SX
X coordinate	863
Y coordinate	658
Bibliographic source	Berridge and Simpson 1992