Ayton East Field hoard
The Ayton East Field hoard is a late Neolithic , around 3000 to 2500 BC. A find of grave goods from North Yorkshire in England , but not a deposit in the strict sense of the word , but a grave deposit .
The hoard was found in a pit dug into the top of an oval cairn . The limestone hill was opened by AD Conyngham in 1848. The records suggest that the hoard was found along with a burial.
The finds consist of three axes , an adze , a polished knife, five diamond-shaped arrowheads and two tees from flint , a bulbous head of antlers and two Eberstoßzähnen .
The custom of burying people with recognized grave goods began here around 3000 BC. The older practice of the Neolithic Age was burial in communal graves with few objects. Later, individuals with a certain status in the community were buried with selected personal items. This points to a society in which access to "special" objects was reserved for a few people. The find is in the British Museum .
See also
literature
- DV Clarke, TG Cowie, A. Foxon: Symbols of power at the time of Stonehenge. HMSO, London 1985
- IA Kinnes, IH Longworth: Catalog of the excavated Prehistoric and Romano-British Material in the Greenwell Collection. The British Museum Press, London 1985
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