Burial in Glebe South — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Seventeen people lie pressed together inside an 11.5m chamber, sixteen of them boxed in slate, limestone or shale. They are angled east-west, stretched out like sleepers waiting for a road to be built above them. The date returns 430 to 640 AD, broad enough to swallow several generations, yet narrow enough to place them beside the ring ditch they cut through. Development exposed them; memory must decide whether they were discarded, hidden or simply forgotten by the living.

A total of seventeen inhumation burials were excavated (Licence no. 04E0680) in advance of development. Located within an area of 11.5m sq the inhumation burials cut the ring ditch (DU005-138001-). Sixteen of the burials were within stone-lined cists of slate, limestone or shale. The inhumations were orientated E-W and generally extended and supine. A calibrated radiocarbon date of 430-640 AD was obtained from skeletal material from one of the burials (Carroll et al. 2008, 127). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 2 February 2015

A Neolithic inhumation burial; significant for its multiple burials and association with a ring ditch, indicating early ritual or domestic activity.

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