Thesaurus Term/Concept: CROUCHED INHUMATION

Identifier 70033
Class MONUMENT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note A form of inhumation in which the skeleton is interred, usually on its side, with hip and knee joints bent through an angle of more than 90 degrees.

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Context Record
Monument Type MNF47415 Bronze Age barrow and other features at the Former Radar Site, RAF Watton (Monument)
Monument Type MNF23650 Early Bronze Age burnt mound and inhumation (Monument)
Monument Type MNF1640 Early Bronze Age inhumation (Monument)
Monument Type MNF14065 Late Neolithic inhumation (Monument)
Monument Type MNF61761 Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age crouched burial (Monument)
Monument Type MNF45047 Middle Bronze Age, Iron Age and medieval activity at Norton Subcourse Quarry extension (Monument)
Monument Type MNF41600 Prehistoric burial and Saxon/medieval occupation at 3 Minstergate (Monument)
Monument Type MNF41406 Prehistoric flint-working site and crouched inhumation, Roman farmstead, Early Saxon settlement and Middle Saxon industrial site, Brandon Road (Monument)
Monument Type MNF5051 Site of Bronze Age round barrow near Hopton House (Monument)