Pardon my ignorance.... but what was/is a CINERARY URN?
Chris Pycroft (nee GWYNNE) in warm and sunny Port Augusta South
Australia
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[mailto:wales-gen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Ellen Murray
Sent: Saturday, 1 March 2008 2:29 PM
To: wales-gen(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [WALES-GEN] "Old Cemetery in Wales" - Bronze Age
Many, found this interesting but at the risk of sounding dumb, do you
know when the "Bronze age" was????
Ellen
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From: "Mandy Pemberton" <corpie(a)alphalink.com.au>
To: <wales-gen(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 10:45 PM
Subject: [WALES-GEN] "Old Cemetery in Wales" - Bronze Age
The following article appeared in a New Zealand paper in 1912 -
"Old Cemetery in Wales - dating from the Bronze Age
The recent discovery of a pre-historic cemetery and crematorium at
Gors
Goch, in the parish of Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, was due to Messrs
Evans
and Jenkin Davies of Gors Villa, who noticed fragments of a cinerary
urn
turned up by the plough. They carefully preserved these for the
inspection of Dr Evan Evans of Lampeter.
The fragments were forwarded to Professor Boyd Dawkins who pronounced
them to be undoubtedly of the Bronze Age. This ancient burial ground,
extending for about 100 yards, is on ground overlooking the margin of
a
new vanished lake. The site is now partly a peat bog, the surface
of
which has been lowered by generations of peat-cutters.
Examination shows that the inhabitants of the uplands of Cardiganshire
in the earlier part of the Bronze Age buried their dead, after
cremation, in five different ways. Medical men have pronounced all
bones found to be human bones.
A number of circular cavities opened at Gors Goch, which contained
charcoal, but no vestigage of bone are a mystery at present. It is
possible that these hollows were receptacles for food for the
departed."
Hope this is of interest . . .
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Regards,
Mandy
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