Bronze Age burial (Ancroft)
(Area centred NU 039470) A tumulus of water-worn stones, about 26 feet high and 50 feet diameter, stood about 250 yards from High Water Mark, on the very extreme limit of the cultivated land, on the left of the road from Cheswick to the beach. When opened in 1826, it was found to contain several secondary inhumations, and, at its centre, a primary burial in a cist, 5 feet x 2 feet 6 inches, together with a bronze knife-dagger, now in the British Museum. (1)(2)(3)
No trace of a cairn in the area. (4)
Additional Reference (5)
No trace of a cairn in the area. (4)
Additional Reference (5)
N3968
EXCAVATION, Excavation at Cheswick (Greenwell UN 16) 1826; DONALDSON, J S
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1968; D Smith
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1968; D Smith
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