#vaynor farm henge

[mostly-history]

Bronze Age cremation urns found near the Neolithic Vaynor Farm Henge (Carmarthenshire, south-west Wales).

Traces of a Bronze Age barrow were found near the Neolithic henge, as well as cremation burials and a site where pyres were lit.  The burials took place from about 2000 – 1650 BC.

None of the cremations (even the intact ones) represented a whole individual.  Some of the cremations were placed in pottery urns (inverted or upright), and some had accessory vessels (empty vessels) within the same grave pit.

The third photo shows an inverted urn.  The fourth photo shows an accessory vessel during excavation, and the smallest of the pots in the fifth photo is also an accessory vessel.

Some of the cremations were buried alone in grave pits, or in cists (stone-lined grave pits).  Many pottery vessels were buried without accompanying cremation remains – they may be the remains of ritual aspects taking place that didn't involve actual cremation.

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