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Site name Batheaston 2, Charmy Down, Hartley Farm

Site number 274

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4045 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4125 4129 4143 4151 4152 4154 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A walled cairn covered the central area, and in turn was covered by an earth mound with a retaining wall and stone capping. This was encircled with extra-revetment material. On the slightly hollowed old land surface c1-2m off the barrow centre were traces of a (?) cremation burial, in the form of a deposit of finely crushed charcoal. In this were a few scraps of calcined bone and a convex flint scraper. A hearth was located on the old surface immediately outside the cairn wall in the south west quadrant, and used before the mound was built. At two points young pig bones were found: under the central cairn, and beneath extra-revetment material at the south east.

Remains/Period Y4

County Somerset

Region SW

National grid square ST

X coordinate 755

Y coordinate 703

Bibliographic source Williams 1950a

Query

Site name	Batheaston 2, Charmy Down, Hartley Farm
Site number	274
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4045 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4125 4129 4143 4151 4152 4154 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A walled cairn covered the central area, and in turn was covered by an earth mound with a retaining wall and stone capping. This was encircled with extra-revetment material. On the slightly hollowed old land surface c1-2m off the barrow centre were traces of a (?) cremation burial, in the form of a deposit of finely crushed charcoal. In this were a few scraps of calcined bone and a convex flint scraper. A hearth was located on the old surface immediately outside the cairn wall in the south west quadrant, and used before the mound was built. At two points young pig bones were found: under the central cairn, and beneath extra-revetment material at the south east.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Somerset
Region	SW
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	755
Y coordinate	703
Bibliographic source	Williams 1950a