Information for record number MWA3407:
Bronze Age Cemetery by Stretton Lane

Summary The site of a Bronze Age cremation cemetery that was found during an excavation. A pottery urn, a pottery cup and a quern stone were amongst the finds. The cemetery was situated in the area of Stretton Road.
What Is It?  
Type: Cemetery, Cremation
Period: Bronze Age (2600 BC - 601 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Wolston
District: Rugby, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 41 74
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
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1 Attention was drawn to discoveries in a recently opened sand pit. The owner discovered that several cremation burials were being disturbed. In one place he found a ring of stones 1m in diameter (?a cooking hearth) and close by the two stones of a saddle quern. A few yards to the W a pottery urn containing a cremation and about the same distance on the other side a rough pottery cup. Most of the burials seem to have been made in circular holes dug in the ground about 0.4m deep. In most of these nothing was found but the scanty remains of ashes. In one a flint flake was discovered in the ashes.
2 Rough location of finds marked on annotated map.
3 Rough location of finds marked on annotated map.
4 Cremation cemetery with bucket urns and decorated accessory vessels.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: TBAS vol 65
Author/originator: Chatwin P B
Date: 1943
Page Number: 126-7
Volume/Sheet: 65
   
Source No: 3
Source Type: Map
Title: 44NE
Author/originator: JMM
Date:
Page Number: 44NE
Volume/Sheet: Annotated Map
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Map
Title: WM
Author/originator: Chatwin P B
Date:
Page Number: 27NE
Volume/Sheet: Annotated
   
Source No: 4
Source Type: Serial
Title: TBAS vol 86
Author/originator: Thomas N
Date: 1974
Page Number: 32
Volume/Sheet: 86
   
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source TBAS Transactions of the Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society is a journal produced by the society annually. It contains articles about archaeological field work that has taken place in Birmingham and Warwickshire in previous years. Copies of the journal are kept by the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
source WM Warwickshire Museum Aerial Photograph Collection. A collection of oblique and vertical aerial photographs and taken by various organisations and individuals, including the Royal Airforce, The Potato Board, Warwickshire Museum. The collection is held at the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
technique excavation Archaeologists excavate sites so that they can find information and recover archaeological materials before they are destroyed by erosion, construction or changes in land-use.

Depending on how complicated and widespread the archaeological deposits are, excavation can be done by hand or with heavy machinery. Archaeologists may excavate a site in a number of ways; either by open area excavation, by digging a test pit or a trial trench.
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period Bronze Age About 2500 BC to 700 BC

The Bronze Age comes after the Neolithic period and before the Iron Age.

The day to day life of people in the Bronze Age probably changed little from how their ancestors had lived during the Neolithic period. They still lived in farmsteads, growing crops and rearing animals.

During the Bronze Age people discovered how to use bronze, an alloy of tin and copper (hence the name that has given to this era). They used it to make their tools and other objects, although they continued to use flint and a range of organic materials as well. A range of bronze axes, palstaves and spears has been found in Warwickshire.
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monument YARD * A paved area, generally found at the back of a house. back
monument CREMATION CEMETERY * A cemetery comprising exclusively cremated human remains, some or all of which may be contained within pottery vessels. back
monument CREMATION * A funeral rite in which the human body is burnt, usually on a pyre, leaving fragmentary charred or completely combusted remains. Often found buried, occasionally in a container associated with grave goods. back
monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument CREMATION BURIAL * The site of the formal burial of cremated bone, sometimes 'urned' in a vessel or casket of glass, wood or, more commonly, ceramic. back
monument STONE * Use only where stone is natural or where there is no indication of function. back
monument URN * A garden ornament, usually of stone or metal, designed in the the form of a vase used to receive the ashes of the dead. back
monument SAND PIT * A pit from which sand is excavated. back
monument ROAD * A way between different places, used by horses, travellers on foot and vehicles. back
monument HEARTH * The slab or place on which a fire is made. back
monument CEMETERY * An area of ground, set apart for the burial of the dead. back
monument BURIAL * An interment of human or animal remains. Use specific type where known. If component use with wider site type. Use FUNERARY SITE for optimum retrieval in searches. back

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