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Workers unearth ancient chariot

Submitted by TimPrevett on Tuesday, 09 December 2003  Page Views: 1324

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An Iron Age chariot from about 500 BC has been discovered by engineers working on the new A1 motorway in West Yorkshire. The site at Darrington, near Pontefract, is said to hold articles of great significance.

In what seems to be a burial chamber, there are the remains of a man aged about 40 and the bones of 250 cattle, as well as the chariot.

It is thought the cattle could have formed part of a huge funeral feast.

Archaeologists say the chariot appears to have been placed in the pit intact.

Nineteen other chariots have been found buried in Britain, but these have all been near the east coast with none as far west as this discovery.

The finds will shed new light on the tribes that lived in the north of England 2,500 years ago.

Once all the finds have been examined, it is hoped they will be put on display in local museums.


Source BBC NEWS 03/12/2003:

Note: Update - Chariot to be displayed in Pontefract in 2005 - see comment below.
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Re: Workers unearth ancient chariot by Anonymous on Tuesday, 09 December 2003
Submitted by TimPrevett:

Chariot swings into history centre

A 2,500-year-old chariot has been found a final resting-place at a history centre in West Yorkshire. The chariot was unearthed in an Iron Age burial site earlier this year by engineers working on the new A1 motorway, but the discovery was only made public last week.

Wakefield Museums Service said the find would be given to them and displayed first in Pontefract in 2005 and then in Castleford when the centre there opens.

The move is expected to take place in about five years' time.

It is believed the site at Darrington, near Pontefract, where the chariot was found was the scene of a large funeral ceremony about 500 BC.

The burial chamber also held the bones of a 40-year-old man and the remains of 250 cattle.

Archaeologists said the 2,500-year-old site was important because the chariot appeared to have been placed in the pit intact.


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