EDO5007 - St. Catherine's Hill Bowl Barrow, Christchurch; disturbed cremation urn

Members of the South Wessex Archaeological Association discovered and excavated a disturbed burial urn protruding from the top of a heavily eroded bowl barrow whilst carrying out a survey on St. Catherine's Hill, Christchurch, during January 1974. The urn was removed and excavated under lab conditions. It was an Early Bronze Age collared urn inverted with the base and some contents missing. Fragments of cremated bone suggested that the burial was that of a youth. The broken remains of an inverted pigmy cup were also found, as was a carbonised fragment of hazel kernel. The urn was found in the northern face of the barrow close to the north eastern corner of the 1921 excavtions on this barrow.