NHER 22811 (Monument record) - Later Bronze Age cremations

20 to 21 May 1986. Excavation.
On access roadway to borrow pit.
Pit 1 = Context 1.
Base of Late Bronze Age urn with cremation in truncated pit fill.
Pit 2 = Context 2.
Bottom of truncated pit fill. Some charcoal and one fragment burnt flint. No sherds.
Pit 3 = Context 3.
Smear left of bottom of pit fill. Some very small scraps of Late Bronze Age.
Pit 4 = Context 4.
Base of Late Bronze Age urn with cremation in truncated pit fill.
Urns from contexts 1 and 4 now in NCM for conservation and removal of cremations (now accessioned as NWHCM : 1998.51).
Compiled by J. Wymer (NAU) 1 August 1986.
Information from (S1).
See published report (S2) for further details. See also drawings (S3)-(S5) - all of which were reproduced in (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 27 April 2019.

May 1986. Excavation.
Part of roadway in area of urns stripped by NARG members and A. Gregory (NAU).
Two ditches traced, one containing scrap of prehistoric pottery; no more urns.
Metal detecting find on field edge a few yards north of urns.
As of Hadrian.
E. Rose (NAU).
Information from (S1).