Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Pelynt 1

Site number 182

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4123 4128 4143 4152 4161 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc One of several barrows contained a 'dagger' (identified as a fragment of a bronze sword hilt) and a cremation. Some others contained cremations in pots. One contained a stone beak-like battle axe.

Remains/Period Y4

County Cornwall

Region SW

National grid square SX

X coordinate 200

Y coordinate 544

Bibliographic source Borlase 1872, Hencken 1932, Christie 1986, Grinsell 1994

Query

Site name	Pelynt 1
Site number	182
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4123 4128 4143 4152 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	One of several barrows contained a 'dagger' (identified as a fragment of a bronze sword hilt) and a cremation. Some others contained cremations in pots. One contained a stone beak-like battle axe.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Cornwall
Region	SW
National grid square	SX
X coordinate	200
Y coordinate	544
Bibliographic source	Borlase 1872, Hencken 1932, Christie 1986, Grinsell 1994