Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

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Site name Junction Pit, Farnham 7

Site number 1122

Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4037 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4091 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4156 4159 4160 4161 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc In the centre of a ring ditch was a biconical urn with horseshoe handles inverted over burnt bones and resting on two chalk slabs c1.5m below the surface and enclosed in a carefully constructed cist of chalk slabs. The two long pieces forming the east and west sides of the cist had rounded heads suggesting crude sculpting to shape and subsequent weathering. A small mound was implied by the central position, the excavator believed. The two slabs on which the urn rested were set on a prepared platform of compacted cretaceous material mixed with clayey loam and charcoal. Some cremated bone, fire cracked flints and charcoal were observed below and around the site of the cist, possibly the residue of the funeral pyre.

Remains/Period Y4

County Surrey

Region SE

National grid square SU

X coordinate 857

Y coordinate 478

Bibliographic source Oakley, Rankine and Lowther 1939, Grinsell 1987b

Query

Site name	Junction Pit, Farnham 7
Site number	1122
Burial codes	4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4037 4041 4048 4051 4065 4075 4081 4091 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4152 4156 4159 4160 4161 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	In the centre of a ring ditch was a biconical urn with horseshoe handles inverted over burnt bones and resting on two chalk slabs c1.5m below the surface and enclosed in a carefully constructed cist of chalk slabs. The two long pieces forming the east and west sides of the cist had rounded heads suggesting crude sculpting to shape and subsequent weathering. A small mound was implied by the central position, the excavator believed. The two slabs on which the urn rested were set on a prepared platform of compacted cretaceous material mixed with clayey loam and charcoal. Some cremated bone, fire cracked flints and charcoal were observed below and around the site of the cist, possibly the residue of the funeral pyre.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Surrey
Region	SE
National grid square	SU
X coordinate	857
Y coordinate	478
Bibliographic source	Oakley, Rankine and Lowther 1939, Grinsell 1987b