Thesaurus Term/Concept: MORTUARY ENCLOSURE

Identifier 70089
Class MONUMENT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note A subrectangular earthen enclosure defined by a ditch, usually with an internal bank, assumed to have been used for the primary exposure or burial of human remains in the Neolithic period prior to secondary burial elsewhere.

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Instances/Examples (89)

Context Record
Monument Type MNF29763 Bronze Age ring ditch and possible late prehistoric features (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF49087 Cropmark of a possible Neolithic sub-rectangular enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF54064 Cropmark of a rectangular enclosure, possibly a Neolithic mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF45903 Cropmark of enclosure of possible Neolithic date (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF50387 Cropmark of enclosure of probable Iron Age to Roman date (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF44365 Cropmark of enclosure of unknown date (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF44344 Cropmark of possible Neolithic long barrow or mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF45252 Cropmark of possible Neolithic long barrow or mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF43314 Cropmark of possible Neolithic mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF54984 Cropmark of possible Neolithic mortuary enclosure or barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF43393 Cropmark of prehistoric enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF13357 Cropmark of probable Neolithic long barrow or elongated enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF8645 Cropmarks of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery and Neolithic mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF32051 Cropmarks of a Bronze Age or undated ring ditch (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF56380 Cropmarks of a Neolithic to Bronze Age barrow cemetery (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF59103 Cropmarks of a pair of ring ditches and a square enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF59257 Cropmarks of a possible incomplete oval or curvilinear enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF54471 Cropmarks of a possible mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF56524 Cropmarks of a possible Neolithic barrow or mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF31740 Cropmarks of a possible Neolithic long barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF45463 Cropmarks of a possible Neolithic long barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF17584 Cropmarks of a possible Neolithic long barrow or mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF54232 Cropmarks of a possible Neolithic long barrow or mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF60215 Cropmarks of a possible Neolithic long barrow or mortuary enclosure, situated next to Bronze Age round barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF75635 Cropmarks of a possible Neolithic oval enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF75940 Cropmarks of a possible Neolithic oval enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF75942 Cropmarks of a possible Neolithic oval enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF76137 Cropmarks of a possible Neolithic oval enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF75606 Cropmarks of a possible Neolithic oval enclosure or long barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF74370 Cropmarks of a possible oval enclosure, perhaps the site of a Neolithic long barrow or mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF56493 Cropmarks of a possible ring ditch of unknown date (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF55176 Cropmarks of a possible ring ditch or oval enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF56519 Cropmarks of a rectangular enclosure of possible Iron Age to Roman date (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF56517 Cropmarks of a ring ditch and square enclosure, possibly Late Iron Age mortuary enclosures (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF56515 Cropmarks of a ring ditch, possibly a late Iron Age mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF56516 Cropmarks of a ring ditch, possibly a late Iron Age mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF5938 Cropmarks of a ring ditch, potentially a Bronze Age round barrow, and ovoid/sub-circular enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF58865 Cropmarks of a small oblong enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF58658 Cropmarks of a small rectangular enclosure of unknown date, Harford Park and Ride (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF55913 Cropmarks of a small square-ditched enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF58855 Cropmarks of an elongated enclosure, possibly a Neolithic mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF40153 Cropmarks of an oval enclosure of an uncertain date (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF43408 Cropmarks of Neolithic long barrows or mortuary enclosures (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF67804 Cropmarks of oval enclosure, possible late prehistoric mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF54504 Cropmarks of possible Neolithic long barrow or mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF58369 Cropmarks of possible Neolithic long barrow or mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF58441 Cropmarks of possible Neolithic long barrow or mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF54501 Cropmarks of possible Neolithic long barrow or mortuary enclosure and ring ditch (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF43128 Cropmarks of possible Neolithic mortuary enclosure and Bronze Age ring ditch (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF58812 Cropmarks of possible Neolithic mortuary enclosure or long barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF74464 Cropmarks of post medieval and undated field boundaries, enclosures and possible settlement (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF17657 Cropmarks of probable Bronze Age round barrow or Iron Age mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF58800 Cropmarks of probable Neolithic long barrow and Bronze Age round barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF45010 Cropmarks of probable Neolithic oval barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF58966 Cropmarks of square ditched enclosures, possibly Iron Age to Roman funerary features (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF58940 Cropmarks of three ring ditches in a line, possible Bronze Age round barrows, or Iron Age roundhouses (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF59185 Cropmarks of two possible prehistoric mortuary enclosures or barrows (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF42909 Iron Age and Roman settlement, 60 Acre Field (Monument)
Monument Type MNF18131 Late prehistoric rectangular enclosure and associated linear features (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF40347 Multi-period site, Yarmouth Road Quarry (Monument)
Monument Type MNF40440 Neolithic and Bronze Age features and Iron Age settlement at Honeypots Plantation (Monument)
Monument Type MNF9589 Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman occupation site (Monument)
Monument Type MNF45456 Possible Neolithic barrow or enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF45310 Possible Neolithic long barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF46463 Possible Neolithic long barrow or mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF50388 Possible Neolithic long barrow or mortuary enclosure site (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF47079 Possible Neolithic or Bronze Age ring ditch and enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF56148 Possible site of prehistoric funerary monument (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF9794 Prehistoric barrow cemetery, Middle-Late Iron Age occupation site, and Saxon inhumation cemetery, Harford Farm (Monument)
Monument Type MNF22883 Probable Neolithic mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF43497 Probable site of Bronze Age round barrow at Clippesby (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF58642 Rectangular enclosure of possible Neolithic or later prehistoric date, Harford Park and Ride (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF76034 Site of a possible Neolithic long barrow (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF9583 Site of D-shaped enclosure of probable Neolithic to Bronze Age date (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF40782 Site of Neolithic mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF56221 Site of possible elongated enclosure of Neolithic date (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF55875 Site of possible Neolithic long barrow or mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF55888 Site of possible Neolithic long barrow or mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF78817 Site of possible Neolithic long barrow/funerary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF50449 Site of possible Neolithic mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF18875 Site of possible Neolithic oval barrow or mortuary enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF55281 Site of possible prehistoric funerary monument (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF19396 Site of ring ditch and oval enclosure (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF59079 Site of undated linear ditches, including possible Neolithic funerary monument (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF5853 The 'Thetford Treasure' and Roman temple, Fison Way (Monument)
Monument Type MNF55300 The cropmarks of an enclosure of unknown, but probable late prehistoric date (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF16062 Two possible Bronze Age ring ditches (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF5782 Two undated enclosures and post medieval tile (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF6009 Undated earthworks and ditches on Overa Heath (Cropmark and Earthwork)