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Site name | Tarrant Launceston 5, Launceston Down |
Site number | 751 |
Burial codes | 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4047 4051 4065 4071 4084 4098 4104 4111 4124 4128 4129 4143 4152 4153 4182 |
2500bc-14/1300bc | A bowl barrow with mound of large flints covering a nearly central D-shaped grave pit 1.8m x 1.35m x 0.7m deep. The top fill was yellow earth and stones, the lower fill clean chalk rubble covering a skeleton oriented head to NNE, crouched, on its left side, the skull trephinated in the left parietal and unhealed. By the right tibia was a Bi Beaker on its side, a worked flint flake by the feet. A roughly made burnt flint pick was found in the chalk rubble. A secondary cremation was dug partly into the north corner of the grave pit. |
Remains/Period | Y4 |
County | Dorset |
Region | S |
National grid square | ST |
X coordinate | 957 |
Y coordinate | 106 |
Bibliographic source | Piggott 1940b, Piggott and Piggott 1944 |
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