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Site name Simondston Cairn, Coety

Site number 393

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4031 4037 4041 4047 4051 4053 4065 4075 4081 4093 4098 4104 4110 4111 4128 4129 4130 4152 4153 4156 4161 4162 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A stone mound in whose centre was a primary cist burial aligned NE/SW, filled with loam, without a cover slab, and holding 2 inverted urns of enlarged food vessels. The cist floor slab was covered with burnt bones, clean with little charcoal. By one urn was a flint knife, by the other a flint fabricator. A small hemispherical 'cup' nodule of marcasite was between the urns. Urn A1 contained the human skeletal material of one adult, A2 those of an adult and a child. Some burnt human skeletal material was scattered in the top of the cist filling. One of the cist slabs was marked with 5 shallow holes. The cist was set into a trench cut for it into the subsoil, then packed about with soil and stones.

Near the southern boundary of the cairn there was a small area protected against the thrust of the cairn structure which contained several secondary burials. Cremation B1 was of an adult and 2 children contained in an inverted Abercromby Ii urn on a charcoal and burnt bone covered patch including coal. Cremation B2 was above, a bunch of clean burnt bones of an adult and a child, in the centre of which was a corroded bronze pin or awl (may have secured the bag?). Cremation B3 was disturbed: it was later than A1/2 and B1, and comprised a few fragments of bone and a flint tool. Cremation B4 was to the west of B1 and at a lower level, a reddish black mass of burnt clay and charcoal over finely comminuted bone placed in a hole in clay subsoil then refilled with clay. On the south east side of the cairn was a further isolated cremation C1: just above the original ground surface was a ring of dark reddish clay surrounding a circular deposit of burnt bones of one individual, clean but for a little charcoal. Four large slabs of conglomerate marl were placed in the south west quadrant outside the cairn edge, three with packing stones, two covering deep artificial holes, none covering any datable artefacts.

Remains/Period Y4

County South Glamorgan

Region SW

National grid square SS

X coordinate 924

Y coordinate 809

Bibliographic source Fox and Fox 1937, Fox 1938, 1959b

Query

Site name	Simondston Cairn, Coety
Site number	393
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4031 4037 4041 4047 4051 4053 4065 4075 4081 4093 4098 4104 4110 4111 4128 4129 4130 4152 4153 4156 4161 4162 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A stone mound in whose centre was a primary cist burial aligned NE/SW, filled with loam, without a cover slab, and holding 2 inverted urns of enlarged food vessels. The cist floor slab was covered with burnt bones, clean with little charcoal. By one urn was a flint knife, by the other a flint fabricator. A small hemispherical 'cup' nodule of marcasite was between the urns. Urn A1 contained the human skeletal material of one adult, A2 those of an adult and a child. Some burnt human skeletal material was scattered in the top of the cist filling. One of the cist slabs was marked with 5 shallow holes. The cist was set into a trench cut for it into the subsoil, then packed about with soil and stones. Near the southern boundary of the cairn there was a small area protected against the thrust of the cairn structure which contained several secondary burials. Cremation B1 was of an adult and 2 children contained in an inverted Abercromby Ii urn on a charcoal and burnt bone covered patch including coal. Cremation B2 was above, a bunch of clean burnt bones of an adult and a child, in the centre of which was a corroded bronze pin or awl (may have secured the bag?). Cremation B3 was disturbed: it was later than A1/2 and B1, and comprised a few fragments of bone and a flint tool. Cremation B4 was to the west of B1 and at a lower level, a reddish black mass of burnt clay and charcoal over finely comminuted bone placed in a hole in clay subsoil then refilled with clay. On the south east side of the cairn was a further isolated cremation C1: just above the original ground surface was a ring of dark reddish clay surrounding a circular deposit of burnt bones of one individual, clean but for a little charcoal. Four large slabs of conglomerate marl were placed in the south west quadrant outside the cairn edge, three with packing stones, two covering deep artificial holes, none covering any datable artefacts.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	South Glamorgan
Region	SW
National grid square	SS
X coordinate	924
Y coordinate	809
Bibliographic source	Fox and Fox 1937, Fox 1938, 1959b