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Site name | Colliford Reservoir Site CRII |
Site number | 198 |
Burial codes | 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4053 4143 4153 4154 4184 4200 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A round cairn with an outer and inner ring wall, built on soil stripped of the original covering turves. These turves were not used in the construction. There were three charcoal filled pits in the south east sector covered by capstones. One pit contained small white quartzite pebbles. The central pit was dug and refilled apparently only with subsoil. There was no human skeletal material. RC: from charcoal HAR-2624 1660 +/- 70, from charcoal HAR-2617 1550 +/- 80, from charcoal HAR-2622 1540 +/- 90 |
Remains/Period | N4 |
County | Cornwall |
Region | SW |
National grid square | SX |
X coordinate | 179 |
Y coordinate | 713 |
Bibliographic source | Griffith 1984 |
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