NHER 550 (Monument record) - Roman cremation burials

23 July 1950. In making tennis court on north side of 'Oakwood', 17 Stanley Avenue (new house).
Burial I. Female. Handled flagon, platter containing cremated bones and coin [1] (Nero). White bronze mirror with coin [2] (Nero) above, over wooden mirror case, fragmentary, over coin [3] (Nero), even more bones. Also blue glass bead. Top of flagon 0.4m (1ft 3in) from surface. Burial dating to around 70 AD.

19 November 1950.
Burial II. 3.05m (10ft) northwest of I, found. Handled flagon, grey platter. Fragments of jar with cremated bones and one iron nail.

1950.
Undecorated handmade sherds found. Bronze Age scraper.

For 1950s finds see source (S1).
T. Sunley (NLA) 6 November 2007.

1951.
Further excavation revealed nothing more, but excavation by T. Mck. Clough (NAU) in November 1969 produced shouldered jar buried upside down with few more cremated bone fragments, part of bronze brooch, pin surviving.
These found about 1.8m-3.6m (6ft-12ft) west of earlier find.
See reference (S2).

1969.
Another sherd by Burial II. Possibly local Iron Age tradition. Mirror case had traces of Pompeian red paint. Charred condition suggests placed on bones while still hot.
For further details see file and file NCM.

Reference (S3) adds a Bronze Age scraper to 1950 finds.

See also photograph (S4) in file.
T. Sunley (NLA) 6 November 2007.