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| HER Number: | 16037 |
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| Name: | BOSCAWEN UN - Bronze Age cairn |
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Summary
An overgrown freestanding stone and earth cairn, 8.0m in diameter and standing up to 1.0m high.
Protected Status: None recorded
Other References/Statuses
- Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 16037
Monument Type(s):
- CAIRN (Bronze Age - 2500 BC to 801 BC)
Full description
An overgrown freestanding stone and earth cairn within an unimproved enclosure at Boscawen-un. On fairly flat farming plain. Sketch survey by Sharpe for CAU in 1985 (h1, b1, b2). A possible cairn, consisting of a structure of stone and earth of some 8.0m in diameter and standing up to 1.0m high. No further details. Possibly a distant relation of barrow group 16031, which lies some 400m to the SSE.
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Site history:
1: 1985. SHARPE, A/CAU
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<1> Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Field Drawing (GRE), GRE 2/16 (Cartographic materials). SCO5089.
<2> Cornwall Archaeological Unit, 198-, Drawing Archive, Hanging (GRH), GRH 68/4/SW4127 (Cartographic materials). SCO5088.
Sources / Further Reading
| [1] | SCO5089 - Cartographic materials: Cornwall Archaeological Unit. Field Drawing (GRE). GRE 2/16. |
| [2] | SCO5088 - Cartographic materials: Cornwall Archaeological Unit. 198-. Drawing Archive, Hanging (GRH). GRH 68/4/SW4127. |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
Related records: none recorded
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