Monument record MDO6805 - Bronze Age urned cremation from Hoare's Pit, Bear Wood, Poole

Probable Bronze Age cinerary urn recorded by Norman Field from Hoare's Pit, the pottery was not been kept and the identification is based on descriptions of the find.

In 1950 an excavator-driver uncovered a large urn at a depth of 3 feet where the topsoil met the underlying gravel. The fragments were kept for some time but had been thrown away when Norman Field learnt of the discovery. The driver's description, however, indicated a vessel of about 15 to 18 inches high, ove very thick ware, rusty red in colour and of very gritty paste. It seems there were irregular finger or thumb marks around the upper part of the sides, which had a broad convex profile. A deposit of some 2 inches of charred black and grey bone was found inside. It was evidently a late Bronze Age burial urn. (1)

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1953, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1952, 106-107 (Serial). SDO52.

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