Monument record 1820 - Bronze Age Burial Site (Plus Late Neolithic & Early Iron Age Activity)

A small Bronze Age vessel was found in a pit, with cremated bones during gravel workings in 1975. Several other pits and shallow ditches in the same area could not be dated but were probably of Neolithic or early Iron Age date.

{1} Excavation of 1975 by D.Jackson. Pit contining a Bronze Age cremation urn at SP981749. The pit was heat-reddened. Adjacent were cylindrical pits and ditches of uncertain date.

{2} A small Bronze Age vessel from a pit, with cremated bones. Other possible Neolithic or Early Iron Age features were also found.

{3} Bronze Age cremation was found in a small pit (0.3m in diameter and 0.40m deep in gravel). Evidence of burning around the sides, it contained cremated bone, burnt earth, a dark silty loam and a small urn. Small bones of hands, feet, face and teeth are missing. The cremation probably represents remains of female in late twenties-early thirties. The urn size places it amoung the accessory (Pygmy) cup series that accompanys burial of Early Bronze Age date.

<1> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1976, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1975, p.184 (checked) (Journal). SNN169.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.192/Site 10 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

<3> Parry S., 1993, Raunds Area Survey Report, p.138 (unchecked) (Draft). SNN1175.

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