Burnt Mound from Watermead
The Burnt Mound at Watermead in Leicestershire , England, dates back to the late Neolithic .
In the center of the Burnt Mound is a round area made of well-preserved planks framed by vertical wattle walls . Despite extensive testing, this rarely preserved structure did not provide any evidence of food processing . Evidence for a hearth and contemporary trench suggests complex, perhaps multi-phase, activities. The timber lining of the sunk pit means extensive effort to function on more than one occasion. The 14C dating indicates about 700 years of use (2860-2140 BC)
The human remains, in the swampy ground, are of at least two people from the Early Neolithic and one from the Late Bronze Age with cut marks on two vertebrae, indicating that his throat was cut. Animal bones from the peat around the human remains come from a slaughtered aurochs .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Investigation report "Human Bone" (English, PDF)
- ↑ Investigation report "Animal bone report" (English, PDF)
literature
- John Ó Néill: Burnt Mounds in Northern and Western Europe : A study of prehistoric technology and society. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller. ISBN 978-3639206098 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 41 ′ 9.6 " N , 1 ° 7 ′ 19.2" W.