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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Boskednan, Gulval

Site number 189

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4031 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4156 4161 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc Barrow sited on the edge of a stone circle and covering a cist oriented NS. Nearby was a large quantity of burnt wood, then 0.6m further away Middle Bronze Age pottery fragments with associated cremated human skeletal material.

Remains/Period Y4

County Cornwall

Region SW

National grid square SW

X coordinate 440

Y coordinate 350

Bibliographic source Borlase 1872, Hencken 1932

Query

Site name	Boskednan, Gulval
Site number	189
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4031 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4156 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	Barrow sited on the edge of a stone circle and covering a cist oriented NS. Nearby was a large quantity of burnt wood, then 0.6m further away Middle Bronze Age pottery fragments with associated cremated human skeletal material.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Cornwall
Region	SW
National grid square	SW
X coordinate	440
Y coordinate	350
Bibliographic source	Borlase 1872, Hencken 1932