EDO89 - Knobs Crook, Woodlands; excavation 1959

A small mound was excavated by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England in July 1959 (1959 according to the NRHE and PDNHAS but RCHME Inventory says 1958) directed by Peter Fowler. The mound proved to be of clay over three pits; two around 1ft 6in in diameter and 1ft deep, and a larger pit 5ft 8ins long by about 2 feet wide and 9 inches deep, and containing burnt clay, charcoal, and 700 fragments of bronze, lumps of solidified molten glass, sherds of Samian, a small quantity of cremated bone and an unburnt disc from a trepanned skull. These finds were all either on top of or inside the pits, and were interpreted as the remains of a cremation which had taken place off site and was then deposited in the large pit inside some sort of wooden container and alongside items such as glass vessels as a funeral deposit, which was then burnt. The mound was constructed after this. The pottery suggested a Flavian date.