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Monument Number 17772
Hob Uid: 17772
Location : County Durham Holwick, Lunedale
Grid Ref : NY9390023800
Summary : Slight earthwork remains of a Bronze Age cairn, excavation uncovered a cist with an urned cremation.
More information : NY 939238. Bronze Age cairn. Excavated. (1-2) Tumulus on top of Kirkcarrion (shown on OS 1" 7th Ser 1964 and as Kirk Arran on OS 6" 1953) containing a square stone cist with burial urn holding bones. The urn was originally at Streatlam but is now lost. Cist stones are built into Crossthwaite pasture wall. (3) NY 93912380. A slightly raised circular area of stones 3.5m diameter with a hollowed centre and with no trace of kerb or cist. The removed stone content of the cairn lies 4m to the south. (See GP from the North) Surveyed at 1:2500. (4) NY 939238 antiquities description should now read site of cairn. (5)

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Source details : Clack, P A G and Gosling, P F (eds), 1975. Archaeology in the North Gazetteer
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Source details : D Coggins
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Source Number : 2
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Source details : APs (RAF 106G/UK 1700 3042-43 27.8.46)
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Source Number : 3
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Source details : Archaeol Index Sunderland Museum
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Source Number : 3a
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Source details : Short note in Fitzhugh Magazine 1804. Reprinted in 'Teesdale Mercury Aug 1905'
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Source Number : 4
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Source details : F1 ISS 22-NOV-79
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Source Number : 5
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Source details : Durham County Planning Officer (Letter 4.12.87)
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Burial Cairn, Cist, Cremation, Cinerary Urn
Evidence : Earthwork, Sub Surface Deposit, Find

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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : NY 92 SW 6
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1800-01-01
End Date : 1899-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1979-11-22
End Date : 1979-11-22

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 17772