What is recorded here
A flat cemetery was identified through test-excavation (Licence no. 06E0799). Located on relatively gently sloping ground the flat cemetery comprises a sub-circular pit (1.45m diam.), a series of possible cremation pits and a cist (Frazer 2007, 34).
Compiled by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 2 February 2015
Flat cemetery, likely Bronze Age; indicative of cremation burial practices. Its sub-circular pits suggest a domestic or ritual context within a funerary landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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