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Site name Tinkinswood, St Nicholas, Gla 9
Site number 50
Burial codes 5005 5009 5022 5023 5025 5027 5030 5031 5036 5043 5047 5051 5053 5065 5075 5093 5103 5110 5111 5122 5127 5143 5154 5155 5159 5181
3500bc - 2500bc Chambered long cairn oriented NE, which had been disturbed at some earlier time. Before the chamber was human skeletal material of 21 adult females, 16 adult males and 8 children, animal bones and pottery. A clay floor had 2 parts of skulls embedded. Some human skeletal material fragments were in the passage, and much pottery from one vessel broken on site. Some human skeletal material was near the south chamber, in the middle of the north side. Eight fragments of cremated child cranium were also found. Stone alignments were found within the west end, and Windmill Hill pottery, two pebbles (tools?), and a bone pin. 0.7m deep filling over floor containing human skeletal material and potsherds of Abingdon and Windmill Hill, flints, oxen and sheep bones. The mound had been disturbed.
2500bc-14/1300bc Some fragments of a vessel in the A Beaker style were found in a chamber which had been disturbed, and human skeletal material and pottery was scattered in the entrance forecourt. At least 50 individuals' bones were represented (21 female, 16 male and 8 juveniles), mixed with Neolithic bowl fragments.
Remains/Period Y5 Y4
County South Glamorgan
Region SW
National grid square ST
X coordinate 92
Y coordinate 733
Bibliographic source Ward 1915, 1916, Lynch 1976


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