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Cross Hands Barrow Cemetery, Northern Tumulus

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NPRN304291
Map ReferenceSN12SE
Grid ReferenceSN1942023010
Unitary (Local) AuthorityCarmarthenshire
Old CountyCarmarthenshire
CommunityLlanboidy
Type Of SiteROUND BARROW
PeriodBronze Age
Description
A ploughed-down round barrow, 16m in diameter & 0.5m high; a central in-urned cremation, set within a small cist-structure, together with a secondary, peripheral in-urned cremation, were recoded in excavations in 1925 (Fox 1925, 281-7).
A second barrow (Nprn401133) lies c.60m to the SE; a third possible example being recorded c.100m to the ESE (at SN19542299), where a BA urn, containing burnt bone, was recovered in 1920 (Trans. Carm. Ant. Soc. & Field Club 14, 29 & 42), from an area where a sepulchral mound, c.15m in diameter, had previously been noted (Barnwell 1872, 135): stones. c.150m to the ESE (Nprn304292), are thought to represent a ruined chambered tomb.
Sources: Barnwell 1872 (AC 4th series 3), 81-143;
Fox 1925 (AC 80), 275-88;
Os495card; SN12SE2.
RCAHMW AP965006/56
J.Wiles 01.09.04