Basic Information
- Pit with cremation urn
Contexts
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Context: BLS_6010
- Cut of urn filled cremation pit
- Lisa Westcott Wilkins
- 23-9-2017
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Context: BLS_6011
- Ceramic-rich fill of cremation pit and urn
- Lisa Westcott Wilkins
- 23-9-2017
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Context: BLS_6012
- Fill of cremation pit
- Lisa Westcott Wilkins
- 23-9-2017
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Context: BLS_6023
- Dark fill around urn
- Sean McDaniels
- 24-9-2017
Narrative
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- This cremation burial was in an almost circular pit, whose diameter ranged between 0.9m and 1.0m, cut 0.20m into the natural. Within this was placed an inverted urn SF196. This urn contained the cremated remains of at least one individual ,(6025) and might not have been sealed, as dark soil surrounded the bottom of the urn which may represent material fallen from out from within the urn when it had been inverted. Immediately adjacent to the urn was a second smaller accessory vessel SF165 that contained no human bone or artefacts within it. The fill of the burial pit contained a further ceramic sherd, however this is likely to have come from the primary burial urn SF196 which had been disturbed by rooting activity and then further damaged and partially dispersed the buried urn SF196 to the west by ploughing F606.
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- Ed Caswell
- 13-3-2018
Dating Narrative
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- The urn is associated with an accessory vessel which are exclusively Early Bronze Age in Date it likely then that this cremation burial dates to this same phase.
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- Ed Caswell
- 13-3-2018