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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Constantine IslandCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 0.4 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cornwall Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Padstow Nearest Village: St Merryn
Map Ref: SW85727513
Latitude: 50.536594N Longitude: 5.025263W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
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| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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TheCaptain visited on 12th Jun 2022 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 3 A long walk round Trevose Head starting at Constantine. I cross Constantine Beach, and climb up for a look on the islet between Constantine and Booby's beaches. Is this remains of a cairn? Moving on, I drop down into Booby's Bay, hoping to see the remnants of the S.V. Carl shipwreck, but the sands have covered most of it up again.
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From Cornish Archaeology, 2009-10, "Excavation of a Bronze Age barrow on Constantine Island, St Merryn, Cornwall", Andy M Jones.
"In August 2007, an inhumation burial was reported within a cist at the seaward end of Constantine Island, St Merryn. The National Trust commissioned the Historic Environment Service to undertake an archaeological excavation of the site (SW 85719 75122). The cist, which was found to hold a crouched adult male, was set within a cairn over an earlier small mound that was largely comprised of sand, stone and midden material. The mound in turn was found to overlay an earlier land surface. The site was not completely excavated but a section was cut across it so that its construction sequence and relationship with the cist could be better understood. A radiocarbon date on bone from the skeleton fell between 1380 and 1110 cal BC, providing a Middle Bronze date, a period from which very few human remains are known from Cornwall and no other barrow-associated burials are currently recorded.
See Excavation_of_a_Bronze_Age_barrow_on_Constantine_Island_St_Merryn_Cornwall
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