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Site name Sheeplays 279' Llantwit Major

Site number 386

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4047 4051 4065 4075 4084 4093 4098 4104 4108 4110 4111 4128 4141 4151 4152 4162 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A small round barrow of turf with a soil casing, a marginal stone ring, and a possible ditch. A central cremation of an adult and child, bones clean of charcoal, was enveloped in a reddish-brown granular substance (possibly a leather bag which had collapsed leaving a hole above the deposit). It had been deposited cold, at the centre of a 1.4m wide spread of dark greasy soil and charcoal (pyre material). A second cremation of a child c11 was represented by a small quantity of burnt bones, clean, loosely distributed and deposited when hot, as reddened soil and charcoal shows extending on the west side into turf layers surrounding cremation 1.

Layers of greyish sandy clay covered both deposits, and the turf mound started for cremation 1 was built on to cover cremation 2 as one process. A stake circle centred on the north west point of cremation 1, of a regular 3.9m radius. There were some other stake holes inside this circle, smaller in size and of uncertain function. A stone ring was accurately set out centring on the same point as the stake circle, 8.6m in diameter. There was some incomplete evidence for a quarry ditch.

Remains/Period Y4

County South Glamorgan

Region SW

National grid square SS

X coordinate 960

Y coordinate 720

Bibliographic source Fox 1941b, 1959b

Query

Site name	Sheeplays 279' Llantwit Major
Site number	386
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4041 4047 4051 4065 4075 4084 4093 4098 4104 4108 4110 4111 4128 4141 4151 4152 4162 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A small round barrow of turf with a soil casing, a marginal stone ring, and a possible ditch. A central cremation of an adult and child, bones clean of charcoal, was enveloped in a reddish-brown granular substance (possibly a leather bag which had collapsed leaving a hole above the deposit). It had been deposited cold, at the centre of a 1.4m wide spread of dark greasy soil and charcoal (pyre material). A second cremation of a child c11 was represented by a small quantity of burnt bones, clean, loosely distributed and deposited when hot, as reddened soil and charcoal shows extending on the west side into turf layers surrounding cremation 1. Layers of greyish sandy clay covered both deposits, and the turf mound started for cremation 1 was built on to cover cremation 2 as one process. A stake circle centred on the north west point of cremation 1, of a regular 3.9m radius. There were some other stake holes inside this circle, smaller in size and of uncertain function. A stone ring was accurately set out centring on the same point as the stake circle, 8.6m in diameter. There was some incomplete evidence for a quarry ditch.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	South Glamorgan
Region	SW
National grid square	SS
X coordinate	960
Y coordinate	720
Bibliographic source	Fox 1941b, 1959b