Social Cottage Burial Cairn
Period: Bronze Age
NGR Easting: 242140
NGR Northing: 483430
Description: Bronze Age burial mound. This burial mound stands at the edge of a cultivated field. Agricultural activity has in the past encroached on its eastern side, but it still survives to a maximum diameter of 19m and is 1.5m high. Fragments of urns inverted over secondary burials have in the past been found near the top of the mound. Below these a stone cist was also found.
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Site & Monument Type: Burial Cairn, Cisted
Category: National Monuments Record: Statutory Ancient Monuments
Site ID number: 0645.00
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