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Site name Woodbury Common

Site number 1391

Burial codes 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4053 4065 4094 4143 4153 4184

2500bc-14/1300bc A group of mounds, none with burial deposits recorded, but several exhibiting signs of elaborate ritual activity possibly connected with cremation if the excavator's interpretation is accurate, involving cairns, pits with pot and artefact burial, brushwood and grass fires, and in particular notably elaborate arrangements of coloured pebbles especially of bluestone, and other stones. The pottery was identified as Early Bronze Age Beaker ware from one mound (Woodbury E).

Remains/Period N4

County Devon

Region SW

National grid square SY

X coordinate 32

Y coordinate 874

Bibliographic source Carter 1936

Query

Site name	Woodbury Common
Site number	1391
Burial codes	4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4053 4065 4094 4143 4153 4184
2500bc-14/1300bc	A group of mounds, none with burial deposits recorded, but several exhibiting signs of elaborate ritual activity possibly connected with cremation if the excavator's interpretation is accurate, involving cairns, pits with pot and artefact burial, brushwood and grass fires, and in particular notably elaborate arrangements of coloured pebbles especially of bluestone, and other stones. The pottery was identified as Early Bronze Age Beaker ware from one mound (Woodbury E).
Remains/Period	N4
County	Devon
Region	SW
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	32
Y coordinate	874
Bibliographic source	Carter 1936