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Site name Tarrant Launceston 19i, The Launceston Sepulchralia
Site number 1608
Burial codes 3002 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3053 3065 3075 3084 3091 3098 3104 3111 3128 3143 3153 3161 3173 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc A cemetery with cremations covered by a flint platform c3.75m in diameter x 0.5m deep. Below the platform was a 0.5m thick spread of dark earth mixed with charcoal, ashes, pieces of bone and coarse pottery fragments, which covered the a range of chalk-cut pits filled with burnt bone and ashes. [The urn types are unknown, and the cemetery may be Middle Bronze Age].

There seemed to have been a series of these platforms within a space of c130m, all with a uniform arrangement and contents. Warne observed that these may have been the cemeteries of the ordinary people, barrow mounds being reserved for the eminent.
Remains/Period Y3
County Dorset
Region S
National grid square ST
X coordinate 955
Y coordinate 114
Bibliographic source Warne 1866, Grinsell 1959


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