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Site name Pond Cairn, Coety

Site number 392

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4037 4041 4047 4051 4053 4065 4075 4083 4093 4098 4104 4108 4110 4111 4125 4128 4143 4152 4153 4154 4161 4181 4200

2500bc-14/1300bc An earthen mound surrounded by a stone ring. At the approximate centre was a small pile of stones over an upright fragmented cinerary urn of type Abercromby IIi, containing the burnt bone of an adult. To the east of the urn was a 'basin', charcoal-lined with oak sticks, and inside a zone of pink or red clay burnt by hot charcoal. The floor of the basin contained charcoal paste resting on subsoil, with some human and animal bone fragments from the funeral pyre. A reddened patch covered thinly with charcoal extended north from the basin. A central pit was cut in the rock and sealed with clay, having been filled with small rocks and interspersed with the burnt human skeletal material of a child c7. There was one fresh unburnt flint on the pit floor which ante-dated the burial.

A turf stack enveloped the stone heap. A cairn ring, faced inside and out, surrounded the turf stack, a 1.5m gap between the two, with good inner and outer kerbs. The intervening space was covered with charcoal trodden hard (oak, hawthorn and hazel). A stone heap projecting inwards on the east side of the cairn ring covered a shallow oval pit 1.8m x 0.9m filled with grey-black deposit, composed of brushwood fire ashes with wheat and barley sheaves on top, and on that a fossiliferous slab. A ramp and fire hole led down to the pit.

RC: from the mixed charcoal from the collared urn with the primary burial BM-1111 1556 +/- 51

Remains/Period Y4

County West Glamorgan

Region SW

National grid square SS

X coordinate 915

Y coordinate 812

Bibliographic source Fox 1938, 1959b

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Site name	Pond Cairn, Coety
Site number	392
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4037 4041 4047 4051 4053 4065 4075 4083 4093 4098 4104 4108 4110 4111 4125 4128 4143 4152 4153 4154 4161 4181 4200
2500bc-14/1300bc	An earthen mound surrounded by a stone ring. At the approximate centre was a small pile of stones over an upright fragmented cinerary urn of type Abercromby IIi, containing the burnt bone of an adult. To the east of the urn was a 'basin', charcoal-lined with oak sticks, and inside a zone of pink or red clay burnt by hot charcoal. The floor of the basin contained charcoal paste resting on subsoil, with some human and animal bone fragments from the funeral pyre. A reddened patch covered thinly with charcoal extended north from the basin. A central pit was cut in the rock and sealed with clay, having been filled with small rocks and interspersed with the burnt human skeletal material of a child c7. There was one fresh unburnt flint on the pit floor which ante-dated the burial. A turf stack enveloped the stone heap. A cairn ring, faced inside and out, surrounded the turf stack, a 1.5m gap between the two, with good inner and outer kerbs. The intervening space was covered with charcoal trodden hard (oak, hawthorn and hazel). A stone heap projecting inwards on the east side of the cairn ring covered a shallow oval pit 1.8m x 0.9m filled with grey-black deposit, composed of brushwood fire ashes with wheat and barley sheaves on top, and on that a fossiliferous slab. A ramp and fire hole led down to the pit. RC: from the mixed charcoal from the collared urn with the primary burial BM-1111 1556 +/- 51
Remains/Period	Y4
County	West Glamorgan
Region	SW
National grid square	SS
X coordinate	915
Y coordinate	812
Bibliographic source	Fox 1938, 1959b