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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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