Excavation of a Scheduled burial mound on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor
revealed an unexpected, intact burial deposit of Early Bronze Age date
associated with an unparalleled range of artefacts. The cremated
remains of a young person had been placed within a bearskin pelt and
provided with a basketry container, from which a braided band with tin
studs had spilled out. Within the container were beads of shale,
amber, clay and tin; two pairs of turned wooden studs and a worked
flint flake. A unique item, possibly a sash or band, made from textile
and animal skin was found beneath the container. Beneath this, the
basal stone of the cist had been covered by a layer purple moor grass
which had been collected in summer. Analysis of environmental material
from the site has revealed important insights into the pyre material
used to burn the body, as well as providing important information
about the environment in which the cist was constructed. The
unparalleled assemblage of organic objects has yielded insights into a
range of materials which have not survived from the earlier Bronze Age
elsewhere in southern Britain.
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9781785702617
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2017
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Oxbow Books
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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