Middle Bronze Age cemetery (EHER 6238)

The discovery in a gravel pit in 1922 of seven inverted Middle Bronze Age urns and burnt human remains indicates that this is the site of a Middle Bronze Age cemetery.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: Bronze Age Burial Urns found here in 1922 (NAT). <1> In June 1922, Mr. Sydney Hiscock discovered seven Late Bronze Age cinerary urns in a gravel pit. The urns were arranged fairly close together in two rows running east-west about 1.2m (4 feet) below the surface, and were inverted over calcined human bones. Six of the urns were badly broken, but one has been restored, and it measures 390mm (15.25 inches) high, 360mm (14.5 inches) diameter at the mouth and 280mm (11 inches) at base. The partly restored urn and fragments of the others are in Colchester Museum (Acc Nos. 54486-89.23), and at the time of discovery were thought to date from about 650BC to 400 BC. <2> <3> Fragments of 7 Deverel-Rimbury type bucket urns from a Middle Bronze Age cemetery found here in 1922. A large urn contained human bones. A triangular sandstone rubber was found near the urns, which are in Colchester Museum. <4> - <7> NGR adjusted from TL 7146 2664 to area centred TL 7136 2665, where a gravel pit is depicted on the third edition Ordnance Survey 25-inch map (revised in 1919 and published in 1921). <8>