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A cut-away schematic of a Bronze Age burial mound. This includes a cremation urn and a skeleton in a cist, the two principal modes of disposing of the dead that leave traces from the Bronze Age.

The model is itself inspired by one of Llewellyn Jewitt’s illustrations based on Thomas Bateman’s excavations of burial mounds in the Peak District. As such it is a 3D museological rendition of a 2D
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A cut-away schematic of a Bronze Age burial mound. This includes a cremation urn and a skeleton in a cist, the two principal modes of disposing of the dead that leave traces from the Bronze Age.

The model is itself inspired by one of Llewellyn Jewitt’s illustrations based on Thomas Bateman’s excavations of burial mounds in the Peak District. As such it is a 3D museological rendition of a 2D archaeological illustration.
Photo credit: Howard M R Williams

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