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Site name | Cheddar 5, Tynings Farm (E), T12 |
Site number | 302 |
Burial codes | 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4036 4041 4046 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4093 4102 4104 4105 4108 4110 4121 4122 4143 4152 4153 4161 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | Bowl barrow of earthen mound. A pit burial at the centre 0.45m in diameter sunk 0.15m into the subsoil. There was a circle of small stones placed carefully around the top of the pit, over which were piled stones including flint fragments. In the pit was a large amount of calcined human skeletal material of an adult resting on a charcoal layer. Embedded in the bones was an amulet or hone stone of slate, bored at one end, and a hone stone of polished pebble. 2.4m to the north west of the centre was a large flat stone, and 1.5m beyond a second flat stone encrusted with a thick bituminous material layer. Below this was an inverted cinerary urn with a small hole to the west. The urn was an early overhanging rim urn (BA II Type 1, Phase 1) and covered 2 barrel shaped jet beads, 2 thinner jet beads, 2 small disc beads and a triangular pendant of jet, a pale turquoise-blue tube of vitreous paste (a linear series of fused beads), fragments of dull green beads, and a fine bronze lozenge shaped awl; much charcoal; and the calcined bones of a female c20 or less, and of a child c3. Flints were scattered throughout the barrow mound, and 'much domestic waste and calcined human bone' (Taylor 1951). |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Somerset |
Region | SW |
National grid square | ST |
X coordinate | 471 |
Y coordinate | 563 |
Bibliographic source | Read 1924, Taylor 1951b, Grinsell 1971 |
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