Ipswich UAD child record record IPS 1364 - Cemetery

A small cemetery of ten inhumation burials lay in a north-south row in the south-west corner of the site. Four of the graves had ELS pottery assemblage associated. Grave 0374 had a suspicious amount of pottery recorded for a very small portion of grave containing feet only and contamination from pit 0373 is likely. On the basis of the stratigraphic evidence, they appear to have been interred in a narrow time frame during the ELS period. Grave 0633 cuts MS pits 0588 and 0589, grave 0577 cuts ELS pit 0594 and graves 0322 and 0338 cut the ELS ditch 0044. They are cut by EMED pits 0357 and 0373, but most significantly 0322 is cut by ELS pit 0207.
Only the feet and flexed lower leg bones of inhumation 0314 survived, as the east half of grave 0322 had been removed by ELS pit 0207. It differed from the other nine burials, in that it had been interred with the head to the east. The other nine burials were east-west with heads to the west. Inhumations 0408 and 0634 also had flexed legs. Four of the burials (0425, 0408, 0400, 0415) were laid out side by side, with a further grave (0295) on the same line but detached by some 5.00m from this main group. It is evident however that 0408 must have been interred slightly later than the others, in that it disturbed the left side of 0425. The residual traces of 0375 indicate that this body had been interred directly to the west of this row. The remaining bodies all cut the surface of ditch 0044, to the south-east of the main line of graves..
Of the ten burials, two were adult males, four adult females, three un-sexable adults and one female adolescent. Three of the five for which observations were possible displayed evidence of spina biffida and spondylolysis and were probably related (Mays 1989).(S1).