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Site name | Batheaston 1, Charmy Down, Hartley Farm |
Site number | 273 |
Burial codes | 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4052 4065 4073 4083 4093 4098 4104 4108 4111 4121 4123 4128 4129 4153 4154 4161 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | Stone cairn with a central area defined by a reveting wall of stones c5.4m-5.7m in diameter. At the centre on the old surface stood a food vessel of Abercromby Type 3, covered by a small oolite slab. In it and around its base were a few handfuls of powdery charcoal and crushed bones, indicating cremation elsewhere. To the north just inside the revetment wall was a shallow oval pit containing a Beaker burial of a young person much disturbed but not removed. The pitched stone cover ran over the pit, indicating contemporaneity with the food vessel cremation. A flexed burial was deducible from the general position of the human skeletal material, head to S, body facing W. The Beaker was Abercromby Type A2 (Clarke S2), and was accompanied by a small bronze knife dagger, and a melon shaped bead of Kimmeridge shale. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Somerset |
Region | SW |
National grid square | ST |
X coordinate | 755 |
Y coordinate | 703 |
Bibliographic source | Williams 1950a, Grinsell 1971 |
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