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Site name Hustyn, St Breoke
Site number 191
Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4083 4094 4104 4111 4112 4128 4143 4152 4156 4159 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc In a barrow with a stone ring was a slightly biconical urn with two large handles set upright on a stone in a small stone cist at the end of a long stone 0.9m high. Surrounded by soft fine earth nearly as black as soot, it contained an adult cremation, the bones very clean. Below the fine black earth was a layer of blue and then yellow clay, the latter underlying the natural ground surface. The mound held three pieces of worked flint and sherds of an urn of later date.
Remains/Period Y4
County Cornwall
Region SW
National grid square SW
X coordinate 996
Y coordinate 680
Bibliographic source Iago 1881-83, Hencken 1932


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