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Site name Linkinhorne 1, St Cleer
Site number 171
Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4065 4075 4084 4091 4098 4104 4111 4121 4123 4143 4152 4156 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc Cist 2.3m x 1.2m x 0.9m high covered by a single huge slab of stone, near to the stone circles called The Hurlers. It contained a skeleton accompanied by a diminutive gold beaker with ribbon like handle, a long ogival bronze dagger, pottery, 'some pieces of ivory', 'a few glass beads' (probably faience), and other objects. The cist was built into the outer edge of the round barrow mound, above ground level, hence a secondary burial. It was believed Early Bronze Age (Hencken 1932), and c BC 1700-1400 in his chronology. The gold beaker has been placed at the later end of the Early Bronze Age as Wessex II (Burgess 1980).
Remains/Period Y4
County Cornwall
Region SW
National grid square SX
X coordinate 260
Y coordinate 719
Bibliographic source Hencken 1932, Grinsell 1994


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