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Site name | Tarrant Launceston 4, Launceston Down |
Site number | 750 |
Burial codes | 5001 5005 5021 5023 5025 5028 5030 5035 5042 5046 5052 5065 5075 5084 5091 5096 5104 5111 5112 5128 5143 5152 5159 5182 |
3500bc - 2500bc | A bowl barrow with near the centre a crouched burial on the left side, head to WSW, facing N, and on a layer of flint nodules set on the old land surface. At its feet were two intersecting post holes c0.3m in diameter. Among the ribs was a leaf shaped arrow head. |
Remains/Period | Y5 |
County | Dorset |
Region | S |
National grid square | ST |
X coordinate | 956 |
Y coordinate | 107 |
Bibliographic source | Piggott and Piggott 1944, Kinnes 1979 |
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