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Site name Farway 32, Ball Hill
Site number 245
Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4048 4051 4154 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4123 4129 4143 4152 4169 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A round barrow and ditch, with under a small central cairn of flints a deposit of burnt bones 'packed with the layers of the bark of a tree'. On this were the remains of a grooved bronze dagger and a rivet. About 0.9m away was a handled shale cup wedged in a recess in the cairn, and contemporary. A ring of free-standing small chert boulders had been set up on the outer lip of the ditch. [Kirwan E].
Remains/Period Y4
County Devon
Region SW
National grid square SY
X coordinate 174
Y coordinate 944
Bibliographic source Kirwan 1870, Fox 1948


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