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Site name | West Harptree 8, Pool Farm Barrow |
Site number | 314 |
Burial codes | 4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4031 4037 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4110 4111 4128 4143 4152 4156 4159 4162 4181 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | Round barrow with a central cist 1.6m x 1.3m x 0.8m high, oriented NW/SE. The barrow mound of earth and clay was free of stones. There was a capstone with a long hole at the north west end. 53 small, rough, irregularly shaped stones formed the cist floor laid on the old ground surface. There was a small pile of burnt human skeletal material close to the south west side, near the south east end, compact in form as if originally in a bag. Nothing was found below the cist floor. The south east cist wall slab appeared a 'closing' slab with several packing stones outside. There was no charcoal, flints, or pottery in the cremated remains or in the cist. It was possibly the cremation of an adult and a child. The inner face of the south west cist wall slab was decorated with 6 foot markings (single feet of 4 adults and 2 children c3-4 and c10-12), 9-10 cup marks and a horn device. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Somerset |
Region | SW |
National grid square | ST |
X coordinate | 537 |
Y coordinate | 542 |
Bibliographic source | Horne 1930, Grinsell 1957b |
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