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Lodge Park Long Barrow

tiompan T
tiompan Aug 25, 2012 13:27:21
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thesweetcheat wrote:
tiompan wrote:
Down your way Blight (1845)noted that the barrow at Pelynt had the different coloured soils showed “ strong evidence of design in their arrangement “ and “the surrounding neighbourhood furnishes no soil at all like them , either in colour or confirmation “ . Later Borlase digging at Tregiffan barrow mentioned sea shell sand had been used to line discrete small stone capped pit when the nearest cove to the site was 3-4 miles away .
J.T. Blight, what a guy. His "Week At the Land's End" is great, and I have a beautiful book of his with illustrations of crosses and prehistoric sites that shows great draughtsmanship and attention to detail.
Another unsung Cornish archaeologist is Charles Croft Andrew who was probably the first to pay attention to the construction and phasing of the mound in two years he excavated and meticulously recorded 36 barrows ,interestingly ,one group of 25 on Davidstow Moor produced only three cases of of evidence for deposition of human remains .

T thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 25, 2012 14:03:45
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
Another unsung Cornish archaeologist is Charles Croft Andrew who was probably the first to pay attention to the construction and phasing of the mound in two years he excavated and meticulously recorded 36 barrows ,interestingly ,one group of 25 on Davidstow Moor produced only three cases of of evidence for deposition of human remains .
Not heard of him at all, have to investigate further.

That is interesting, that absence presumably includes cremation as well as inhumation?

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