Bronze Age cremation and prehistoric finds at Hammonds Farm (EHER 80756)

Trial trenching in 2016 recorded one urned cremation burial in the SW of the site which is speculated to be Bronze Age in date. Scattered flint flakes and four sherds of prehistoric pottery were found in Trenches 2, 15 and 22.

August 2016. Trial trenching. Evidence for prehistoric land use recorded during the evaluation was relatively sparse. Scattered flint flakes were found in Trenches 2, 15 and 22, largely residual in later features, and four sherds of prehistoric pottery, two of probable Late Bronze Age date, were also recovered. While a single sherd from the primary fill of the circular enclosure ditch in Trench 29 could possibly be in situ, the remainder was clearly residual in later features. The cremation burial, in Trench 22 in the SW of the site, is perhaps the only prehistoric feature recorded by the evaluation. Being a simple burial, containing only the burnt remains and a single undiagnostic worked flint flake, it cannot be conclusively dated, but a Bronze Age date is speculated. <1>