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Site name Poldowrian, St Keverne

Site number 213

Burial codes 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4031 4036 4053 4084 4152 4153 4184 4200

2500bc-14/1300bc A low mound of rough oval shape oriented NE. Two pits were dug into the original soil of natural gabbroic clay. One to the south of the mound edge was filled with dark clay and had near vertical sides. It contained many large partly decayed stones, on one of which was impaled a coarse (?) Neolithic pot. The other contained a large rock deliberately deposited with a clay filling. The mound consisted of small stones and earth in alternate layers. Some stones showed signs of burning in a base layer of tightly packed stones set in the gabbroic clay, forming the extent of the mound. 100 sherds of Beaker pottery (about 5 vessels) were scattered throughout the mound. There were resemblances to the mixtures of black earth, stones, broken pot and charcoal in Neolithic mortuary site 'occupation debris'. There was no human skeletal material found, but the features of the site are interesting.

RC: from charcoal near the pot HAR-3108 2050 +/- 150, from charcoal in the lowest stone layer HAR-2892 1540 +/- 90, ditto HAR-3107 1410 +/- 70

Remains/Period N4

County Cornwall

Region SW

National grid square SW

X coordinate 749

Y coordinate 171

Bibliographic source Harris 1979

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Site name	Poldowrian, St Keverne
Site number	213
Burial codes	4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4031 4036 4053 4084 4152 4153 4184 4200
2500bc-14/1300bc	A low mound of rough oval shape oriented NE. Two pits were dug into the original soil of natural gabbroic clay. One to the south of the mound edge was filled with dark clay and had near vertical sides. It contained many large partly decayed stones, on one of which was impaled a coarse (?) Neolithic pot. The other contained a large rock deliberately deposited with a clay filling. The mound consisted of small stones and earth in alternate layers. Some stones showed signs of burning in a base layer of tightly packed stones set in the gabbroic clay, forming the extent of the mound. 100 sherds of Beaker pottery (about 5 vessels) were scattered throughout the mound. There were resemblances to the mixtures of black earth, stones, broken pot and charcoal in Neolithic mortuary site 'occupation debris'. There was no human skeletal material found, but the features of the site are interesting. RC: from charcoal near the pot HAR-3108 2050 +/- 150, from charcoal in the lowest stone layer HAR-2892 1540 +/- 90, ditto HAR-3107 1410 +/- 70
Remains/Period	N4
County	Cornwall
Region	SW
National grid square	SW
X coordinate	749
Y coordinate	171
Bibliographic source	Harris 1979