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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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