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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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