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|  Posted 23-10-2011 at 22:09
University of York Archaeology students have unearthed a rare Bronze Age cremation urn during excavations on the University’s campus.
The collared urn containing a cremation burial, together with a further cremation without a pot, were found by students from the Department of Archaeology on the site of the University’s £750 million campus expansion at Heslington East in May.
This rare find, which dates back around 4,000 years, was lifted complete by specialist conservators from York Archaeological Trust. The cremation was then excavated from within the pot by Malin Holst, of York Osteoarchaeology Ltd, at the University’s archaeology laboratory at King’s Manor.
Malin Holst, who is also a teaching fellow at the University of York, concluded that some of the fragments of bone which had survived the cremation process belonged to an infant, but full analysis of the pot and cremation is continuing.
http://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2011/research/surprise-bronze-age/
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