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Site name	Chapel Carn Brae A, St Just in Penwith
Site number	166
Burial codes	4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4033 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4085 4091 4098 4104 4111 4128 4142 4153 4154 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A stone cairn with four retaining walls in concentric form, oriented SSE. A central chamber, and beside it a narrow stone-lined trench: in both were cremated remains and pieces of broken pots. In the chamber was a (dubious) whetstone, a spindle whorl, and some sherds amid slimy earth and stone mingled with ashy material possibly fallen in from above. Higher up in the cairn was a fine but empty cist 'of the more usual Bronze Age type'.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Cornwall
Region	SW
National grid square	SW
X coordinate	386
Y coordinate	281
Bibliographic source	Borlase 1886, Hencken 1932

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