EWX690 - Bronze Age cemetery at Latch Farm, Christchurch; excavation 1937
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Location
| Grid reference | SZ 15150 93949 (point) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | SZ19SE |
Technique(s)
Organisation
Not recorded.
Date
1937
Description
C M Piggott excavated the site of a Late Bronze Age cemetery during 1937 due to the imminent destruction of a barrow by gravel digging.
Three pits were revealed, two contained primary burials; the other had been refilled soon after digging. One of the primary pits contained an MBA cinerary urn with the cremated bones of two children; the other contained a cremated burial in the carbonised remains of a tree-trunk coffin, with a bronze pin, which possibly had been used to fasten the material in which the bones had been wrapped. Further excavation revealed that the southern half of the barrow had been used as an LBA urnfield with cremations totalling 90, of which only 70 were burials with urns.
OS Number 11A.
Sources/Archives (5)
- --- SWX3981 Article in serial: Calkin, J B. 1951. The Bournemouth Area in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Times. Vol 73. p32-70.
- --- SWX8207 Article in serial: Piggott, C M. 1938. A Middle Bronze Age barrow and deverel-rimbury urnfield at Latch farm, Christchurch, Hampshire; Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 4.. Vol 4.. p169-87.
- --- SWX9167 Monograph: Longworth, I H. 1984. Collared Urns of the Bronze Age in Great Britain and Ireland. p185.
- --- SDO131 Index: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Records. SZ 19 SE 11.
- --- SDO16497 Digital archive: Historic England. NRHE Excavation Index. 650728.
Record last edited
Oct 22 2020 3:50PM