Bronze Age burial (Alnmouth)
[NU 22980861] Cists and urn found AD1912. (1)
Discovered on Friday 18th October 1912 by workmen engaged in laying water pipes.
The cist, which was only 7-1/2ins below ground level, was oriented east-west and measured approximately 3ft in length, 2ft in width, and 1ft 10ins in depth, the coverstone was broken.
Internal contents consisted of two brachycephalic skulls and a quantity of human bones, there was also an urn of the drinking cup type, which was broken into fragments.
No other prehistoric interment has been recorded in High Buston, although in 1815 there was a find at Low Buston [refers to NU 20 NW 19]. (Article contains anatomical and classified report of human remains). (2)
I know nothing about this discovery, but there is a water pipe in close proximity to the position marked on the map. (3)
The site of this Bronze Age burial occurs in an arable field; there is nothing on the surface in the form of a mound or scatter of stones, to mark its site. The urn, described in T2 as a drinking cup, is a Bronze Age beaker type A, identified from photo in T2 (1). Present location not discovered. (4)
Ref T1. Recorded information notes only one cist found hereabouts. (5)
Bronze Age cist found AD1912. (6)
Beaker classified by Tait as 'short-necked'. (7)
Four vessels found on and around a small cist at High Buston:
i) Food vessel, bipartite. 134mm high, 172mm rim diameter, 92mm base diameter. Lost.
ii) Food vessel, no details. Lost.
iii) Food vessel urn, bipartite. 255mm rim diameter, base missing. Decorated. In Department of Archaeology, Newcastle University.
iv) Food vessel urn, bipartite. 275mm rim diameter, base missing. Decorated. In Department of Archaeology, Newcastle University. (8)
Additional Reference (9)
Discovered on Friday 18th October 1912 by workmen engaged in laying water pipes.
The cist, which was only 7-1/2ins below ground level, was oriented east-west and measured approximately 3ft in length, 2ft in width, and 1ft 10ins in depth, the coverstone was broken.
Internal contents consisted of two brachycephalic skulls and a quantity of human bones, there was also an urn of the drinking cup type, which was broken into fragments.
No other prehistoric interment has been recorded in High Buston, although in 1815 there was a find at Low Buston [refers to NU 20 NW 19]. (Article contains anatomical and classified report of human remains). (2)
I know nothing about this discovery, but there is a water pipe in close proximity to the position marked on the map. (3)
The site of this Bronze Age burial occurs in an arable field; there is nothing on the surface in the form of a mound or scatter of stones, to mark its site. The urn, described in T2 as a drinking cup, is a Bronze Age beaker type A, identified from photo in T2 (1). Present location not discovered. (4)
Ref T1. Recorded information notes only one cist found hereabouts. (5)
Bronze Age cist found AD1912. (6)
Beaker classified by Tait as 'short-necked'. (7)
Four vessels found on and around a small cist at High Buston:
i) Food vessel, bipartite. 134mm high, 172mm rim diameter, 92mm base diameter. Lost.
ii) Food vessel, no details. Lost.
iii) Food vessel urn, bipartite. 255mm rim diameter, base missing. Decorated. In Department of Archaeology, Newcastle University.
iv) Food vessel urn, bipartite. 275mm rim diameter, base missing. Decorated. In Department of Archaeology, Newcastle University. (8)
Additional Reference (9)
N5400
EXCAVATION, Excavation at High Buston 1912; BURMAN, C C
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1954; J H Ostridge
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1954; J H Ostridge
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