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Site name Tarrant Launceston 10, Launceston Down
Site number 748
Burial codes 3001 3005 3021 3023 3025 3028 3030 3035 3041 3048 3051 3053 3065 3075 3083 3091 3098 3104 3111 3112 3128 3143 3152 3153 3161 3181
14/1300bc-8/700bc A bowl barrow with a central circular pit containing a very large Deverel-Rimbury urn, upright and containing cremated bones of one adult. Over its mouth a (carbonised) wooden cover had been placed. A square hole was just to the east, but was empty of finds.
Remains/Period Y3
County Dorset
Region S
National grid square ST
X coordinate 956
Y coordinate 119
Bibliographic source Piggott and Piggott 1944


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