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Summary

A pit about 0.5 metres diameter and 0.2 metres deep containing the cremated remains of an adult woman was recorded during excavations undertaken as part of a programme of archaeological works along the route of a gas pipeline.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CREMATION BURIAL (Early Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 1501 BC) + Sci.Date

Full description

Joyce, S. + Mudd, A. + Collard, M., 2010, South-West Reinforcement Project, Ottery St Mary to Aylesbeare, Aylesbeare to Kenn, Fishacre to Choakford Gas Pipelines, Devon: Post-Excavation Assessment and Updated Project Design Issue 2: Volume I Text, 25, 183 (Report - non-specific). SDV347992.

Site OTA 4.01. At the north-western end of Trench 205 was a pit (205.004) measuring about 0.5 metres diameter and 0.2 metres deep. An environmental sample recovered from the fill identified cremated human bone and also wood charcoal.

Joyce, S. + Mudd, A. + Collard, M., 2010, South-West Reinforcement Project, Ottery St Mary to Aylesbeare, Aylesbeare to Kenn, Fishacre to Choakford Gas Pipelines, Devon: Post-Excavation Assessment and Updated Project Design Issue 2: Volume II Illustrations, Fig. 20 (Report - non-specific). SDV347993.

Joyce, S. + Mudd, A. + Collard, M., 2010, South-West Reinforcement Project, Ottery St Mary to Aylesbeare, Aylesbeare to Kenn, Fishacre to Choakford Gas Pipelines, Devon: Post-Excavation Assessment and Updated Project Design Issue 2: Volume III Site Gazetteer, Site OTA 4.01 (Report - non-specific). SDV347994.

Mudd, A. + Joyce, S., 2014, The Archaeology of the South-West Reinforcement Gas Pipeline, Devon. Investigations in 2005-2007, 24, 68 (Monograph). SDV359340.

Site 6. Salston B. Initial interest in this site was in the presence of three ditches identified on the geophysical survey but an evaluation trench targetted on two of these ditches also found a pit (205.004). This pit, about 0.5 metres diameter and 0.22 metres deep, was found to contain cremated human bone and charcoal, predominently oak but also alder and hazel. The burial was that of an adult woman, dated by radio carbon to 1948-1772 cal. BC. A slightly earlier date of 2137-1975 cal. BC was obtained on a sample of alder charcoal from the same fill. This earlier date is probably due to dating old wood. Both dates place the burial within the Early Bronze Age. No other features in the excavation area which included a number of other larger pits appear to be associated with the burial.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds

• FDV6072 - HUMAN REMAINS (Early Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 1501 BC)
• FDV6071 - PLANT MACRO REMAINS (Early Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 1501 BC) + Sci.Date

Associated Events

• EDV5439 - Archaeological Investigations Along Gas Pipeline, South-West Reinforcement Project

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