Monument record 4809/2/0 - Bronze Age cremation burials, Briar Hill

On the south-west side of the outer circuit of the Neolithic causewayed enclosure was a tight cluster of small pits in which a number of cremations had been buried. Four of these were in urns

{1}10 Bronze Age cremation burials were found on south-west side of outer enclosure; 4 were in bucket-shaped urns & 1 included barbed & tanged flint arrowhead;

{3} On the south-west side of the outer enclosure, 12m east of the inner ditch was found a tight cluster of small pits in which a number of cremations had been buried. Four were contained in the remains of badly decayed bucket shaped urns placed mouth up; the upper part had been destroyed by ploughing. The rest had no container, although one included a burnt barbed and tanged arrowhead of early Bronze Age type. No trace of any barrow, but if there was a formerly a bank on the inner edge of the ditch at this point, they would have been in the tail of it.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1985, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.274 (checked) (Series). SNN77383.

<2> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Photographs). SNN104822.

<3> Bamford H., 1979, Briar Hill Causewayed Enclosure: Second Interim Report, April 1976-October 1978, p. 6/14 (Article). SNN22419.

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