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Site name | Colliford Reservoir, Site CRIV C |
Site number | 197 |
Burial codes | 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4053 4065 4075 4081 4091 4104 4111 4129 4143 4152 4153 4181 4200 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A turf and stone barrow covering a central pit containing cremated bone, built on the original land surface. There was a central stake hole (for layout?), to the east of which was the pit 0.8m diameter x 0.35m deep, filled with charcoal and a solid lump of cremated human skeletal material and roots. The deposit appears to have been set in the pit when very hot from cremation, or to have been re-cremated in the pit. The pit contents were sealed by several stones and a layer of grey-brown clay in the pit: over this was a light sprinkling of charcoal powder. There were several charcoal scatters around the pit. A layer of yellow ash sealed the charcoal, pit stake hole and old ground surface. The turf stack was very roughly made, and in it was a small inverted pot (an Early Bronze Age pygmy cup), above which separated by turves was a cluster of stones. There was a stone capping on the top of the turf mound, and large stones at the bottom edge. RC: from the central pit mature oak charcoal HAR-2991 1630 +/- 80, charcoal HAR-2994 1560 +/- 100 |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Cornwall |
Region | SW |
National grid square | SX |
X coordinate | 177 |
Y coordinate | 711 |
Bibliographic source | Griffith 1984 |
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