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Thesaurus Term/Concept: CROUCHED INHUMATION

Identifier 70033
Class MONUMENT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note A form of inhumation in which the skeleton is interred, usually on its side, with hip and knee joints bent through an angle of more than 90 degrees.

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Context Record
Monument Type MEX1054020 Middle Bronze Age-Early Iron Age activity at New Hall, Harlow (Monument)
Monument Type MEX12789 Neolithic occupation site, Hullbridge Survey Clacton Site 2, Walton-on-the-Naze (Monument)