Thesaurus Term/Concept: CREMATION

Identifier 70028
Class MONUMENT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note A funeral rite in which the human body is burnt, usually on a pyre, leaving fragmentary charred or completely combusted remains. Often found buried, occasionally in a container associated with grave goods.

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Instances/Examples (215)

Context Record
Monument Type MSF4215 "Roman coins and pottery found" (S1). (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6041 51 Castle Lane, Haverhill. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF20439 AAFES Gas Station, Douglas Avenue (Monument)
Monument Type MSF25007 Aldham Mill Hill, Hadleigh (Monument)
Monument Type MSF10304 All Saints Churchyard (Un) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6540 Anglo Saxon barrow with associated cremation and finds (Monument)
Monument Type MSF15321 ARC Quarry (Monument)
Monument Type MSF7411 Artefact scatter of Bronze-Age urns, probably a cemetry. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF2390 BA collared urn was found inverted over a cremation within Tumulii and Sax cremation cemetery. (BA) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF8367 Back Hills (Sax) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF7049 Barnham Heath (BA) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF164 Barrow Bottom; Baroughe Hill (1597) (BA) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF17813 Baseball Pitch, RAF Lakenheath (Sax) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF215 Beacon Hill, Chalk Hill Round Barrow (BA) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF10055 Bernersfield Farm (Monument)
Monument Type MSF10239 Bernersfield Farm (Monument)
Monument Type MSF17532 Bolton & Laughlins Pit, Dale Road, Ipswich, (IAS 8006). (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6268 Brettenham Park (Monument)
Monument Type MSF237 Brick House Farm (Monument)
Monument Type MSF3735 Brightwell Heath (BA) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6654 Bronza Age urn, Westley Heath (Poorly Located Find Spot)
Monument Type MSF34561 Bronze Age Burnt Mound and cremation cemetery, Iron Age D-shaped enclosure and Roman Enclosure, Land NW of Bury St Edmunds (Monument)
Monument Type MSF4066 Bronze Age collared urn, locality unknown, & cremation (S1). (Poorly Located Find Spot)
Monument Type MSF34576 Bronze Age concentric ring ditch and cremation burials, Land at High Road (Monument)
Monument Type MSF24596 Bronze Age Cremation pit, Puddlebrook Playing Fields (Monument)
Monument Type MSF3999 Bronze Age ring ditch (Monument)
Monument Type MSF3841 Bronze Age ring ditch, part of a compelx of four barrows (Monument)
Monument Type MSF3840 Bronze Age ring ditch, part of a complex of four barrows (Monument)
Monument Type MSF7890 Bronze Age Round Barrow, Upper Chamberlain's Farm (Monument)
Monument Type MSF201 Bronze-Age barrow containing a cremation interment, site unknown (Poorly Located Monument)
Monument Type MSF10091 Bronze-Age cemetry and inhumation. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF5932 Bronze-Age cremation urn, possibly collared, found inverted over the ashes of a child. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF3350 Bronze-Age unrfield containing roughly twenty five burials in groups of four to five urns. (BA) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF7016 Broom Close (Monument)
Monument Type MSF5758 Brundon Pit; Ballingdon Pit (Rom) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF2966 Bucket urns (Monument)
Monument Type MSF21928 Carlton Park Phase 2B (S of bypass) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF2595 Castle House grounds, Mundays Lane (Rom) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF9420 Caudle Farm (IA) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6050 Cemetery discovered through gravel quarrying in 1759. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF487 Chantry House, Hall Street (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26638 Cherry Tree Public House, Debenham (Monument)
Monument Type MSF34798 Chesterfield Drive, Ipswich, (IAS 8207). (Monument)
Monument Type MSF23209 Church Lane (Monument)
Monument Type MSF11520 Church of St Mary (Rom) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF1931 Church of St Peter. (BA) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF23828 Churchfields Road (Monument)
Monument Type MSF8032 Cinerary urn (Monument)
Monument Type MSF4059 Claimed findspot of LBA hoard, or possibly ESax cemetery (see THD Misc). (Monument)
Monument Type MSZ27242 Coddenham Baylham Roman Site (Monument)
Monument Type MSF4313 Coddenham Baylham Roman Site (Rom) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF18140 Concentration of burnt flints and extensive prehistoric, Roman and medieval occupation (Monument)
Monument Type MSF3839 Concentric ring ditch, part of a complex of four Bronze Age barrows (Monument)
Monument Type MSF23389 Consolidated Communications Building (BA) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF7112 Cowpath Breck, Place Farm. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF27177 Cremation in pot (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6239 Cremation in urn and two inhumations -Roman (Monument)
Monument Type MSF5240 Dairy Farm (Monument)
Monument Type MSF11127 Darmsden Hall Farm Quarry, Iron Age (IA) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF4520 Devil's Wood Pit (Neo) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF5164 Double ringed Bronze-Age round barrow, visible as a cropmark. (BA) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF28616 Early and Late Iron Age settlement and agricultural activity, A11 - EXC AREA 10 (Monument)
Monument Type MSF7733 Early Anglo-Saxon cemetery Byways and Riverside Paddocks, Stow Road. (Sax) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF28428 Early Bronze Age Round Barrow with cremation and a Small Middle Bronze Age Barrow with a cremation (Monument)
Monument Type MSF2343 Findspot of 2 Bronze-Age cinerary urns. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF9322 Findspot of a fragment of a Roman glass vase (Poorly Located Find Spot)
Monument Type MSF3792 Findspot of a large Roman pot, found with bones (Poorly Located Find Spot)
Monument Type MSF1548 Findspot of a Roman cremation in a pot. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF2820 Findspot of a Roman grey ware pot, found with 4 others containing burnt bones (Poorly Located Find Spot)
Monument Type MSF1716 Findspot of a Roman urn containing bones (Poorly Located Find Spot)
Monument Type MSF17754 Findspot of an inverted Bronze-Age pottery urn containing a cremation. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6360 Findspot of Roman cremation urns. (Rom) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF906 Flixton Park (BA) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF18285 Flixton Park Quarry (New Phase 6) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF25912 Flixton Park Quarry, New Phase 12 (Monument)
Monument Type MSF19242 Flixton Park Quarry, New Phase 6 (BA) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF25911 Flixton Park Quarry, New Phase 9 (Monument)
Monument Type MSF911 Flixton Park, Bronze Age (Quarry) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6696 Gainsborough Road (BA) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6697 Gainsborough Road (Rom) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF29368 Gainsborough Sports and Community Centre, Braziers Wood Road, Ipswich. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF9694 Gallows Hill (Rom) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF4525 Gipping Way (Monument)
Monument Type MSF2540 Golf Course (Monument)
Monument Type MSF2543 Gorse Hill (Rom) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF10073 Gravel Pit Hill (Tithe); Bunkers Barn (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6860 Grimstone End (BA) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6861 Grimstone End (Rom) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF3386 Group of round barrows, Sutton Hoo; Sutton Mounts; Tumulus A; Mound 3 (Monument)
Monument Type MSF3387 Group of round barrows, Sutton Hoo; Sutton Mounts; Tumulus E; Mound 4 (Monument)
Monument Type MSF4870 Hadleigh Road, Ipswich, (IAS 7910). (Find Spot)
Monument Type MSF7111 Hall Farm (Monument)
Monument Type MSF5877 Hall Street (Monument)
Monument Type MSF25917 Hartismere High School, Eye (Prehistoric) (Preh) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF23811 Household Waste Centre, Hadenham Road (Monument)
Monument Type MSF17361 Ingham Quarry (Monument)
Monument Type MSF24585 Intensive Romano-British rural landscape at Former Smoke House Inn (Monument)
Monument Type MSF21470 Ipswich Airport, Area of Roman Features, (IAS 9133). (Monument)
Monument Type MSF24210 Iron Age occupation site at Bridge House Dairies, Mildenhall (Monument)
Monument Type MSF2983 Junction Glenfield Avenue and Fairfield Avenue. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF4764 Junction of Burlington Road and Dalton Road, Ipswich, (IAS 7702) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF4765 Kelly Road, Ipswich, (IAS 7902). (Find Spot)
Monument Type MSF17013 Kesgrave Hall carriageway (Monument)
Monument Type MSF10217 Kiln Field, Iklingham (Monument)
Monument Type MSF27161 Kirtling Green to Wixoe Pipeline, Field 41, a Neo pit and BA- IA features, Part of BRL 026 (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26880 Kirtling Green to Wixoe Pipeline, Fields 26 Bronze Age cremation cemetery (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26871 Kirtling Green to Wixoe Pipeline, Fields 4 & 5, prehistoric (Preh) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF27162 Kirtling Green to Wixoe Pipeline, Fields 48-49, prehistoric features (Preh) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF37770 Land off Fishponds Way, Haughley (Monument)
Monument Type MSF25121 Land South of railway line, Westerfield Road, Ipswich. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF18646 Late Bronze Age activity at Game Farm (Monument)
Monument Type MSF30369 Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age features AW PIPELINE Trench 176 (NPS) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF21708 Late Iron Age to Roman features at Barham Quarry (Monument)
Monument Type MSF35587 Late Medieval to Post Medieval activity at EAOne Site 11, and Bronze Age cremations at site 11b on Land off Cockfield Hall Lane, Westerfield (Monument)
Monument Type MSF38512 Late prehistoric and Roman fetaures at Land east of Artiss Close and Rotheram Road, Bildeston (Monument)
Monument Type MSF29484 Late Prehistoric and Romano-British agricultural activity at Galloper offshore Wind Farm (Monument)
Monument Type MSF35601 Late Prehistoric, Medieval, and post Medieval activity at Land South of Top Street, Martlesham - East Anglia One Area 25 (Monument)
Monument Type MSF5105 Lattinford Bridge (Monument)
Monument Type MSF23814 Liberty village, RAF Lakenheath (Monument)
Monument Type MSF25608 Long Melford Primary School (Monument)
Monument Type MSF3599 Martlesham Airfield (Monument)
Monument Type MSF28545 Medieval and undated features including two Roman cremations pits, Land West of Mill House, The Street, Darsham (Monument)
Monument Type MSF3685 Methersgate Hall (Monument)
Monument Type MSF36995 Middle Bronze Age Cremation and Iron Age occupation evidence at Electrical Substation, Rougham (Monument)
Monument Type MSF24619 Middle Iron Age settlement at Westfield Primary School, Chalkstone Way, Haverhill (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6514 Mill Field (Monument)
Monument Type MSF131 Mill Heath Anglo Saxon cemetery (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6939 Mislocation of WSW 003 (Revoked Record)
Monument Type MSF19283 Mitchells Farm, Trench A (Monument)
Monument Type MSF26843 Multi-period features, Former Tarmac Quarry, Flixton (Monument)
Monument Type MSF35613 Multi-phase, late prehistoric, Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon activity, East Anglia One Area 37 (Monument)
Monument Type MSF17359 Neolithic to Bronze Age features and Iron Age cremations at Ingham Quarry (Monument)
Monument Type MSF5955 North of Sewage Works, Clare, (Roman) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF2980 Old School Allotments; Exeter Road, Walton. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF28797 OUTLINE RECORD: FLIXTON PARK QUARRY (PHASE 15) - MON (Allocated Number)
Monument Type MSF26544 Paddocks site, Moulton Mesolithic, (Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age). (Monument)
Monument Type MSF18648 Palmer's Heath (Monument)
Monument Type MSF34322 Pannington Quarry, Wherstead (Monument)
Monument Type MSF25030 Phase 2, Rear of Smoke House Inn, Beck Row, Mildenhall (Preh) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF14971 Phase 3, Roman (Rom) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6449 Pin Farm Round Barrow; Gallow Field (Tithe) (BA) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF4246 Pond Meadow (Rom) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF4248 Pond Meadow (Un) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF28766 Possible barrow and cremations and other multi-period features (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6852 Possible Rom cemetery (cremation) found here in 1810 by a man digging for brick earth on the field near Pakenham windmill. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF46653 Prehistoric activity at Johnson's Farm, Leiston (Monument)
Monument Type MSF7103 Probable Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetry with urns (Poorly Located Monument)
Monument Type MSF3356 Probably Anglo Saxon burial site and finds including a shield boss, two spears, a javelin and fragments of cooking pot. (Sax) (Confidential Monument)
Monument Type MSF9516 Rabbit Hill (Monument)
Monument Type MSF2258 Rearing Field (Confidential Monument)
Monument Type MSF9478 Rearing Field (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6552 Risby Poor's Heath (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6607 Risby Poor's Heath Round Barrows (Bronze Age) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF8884 Rom road on field S of Scole Bridge, running E-W and composed of stones. Also fieldwalked & metal detected finds. (Rom) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF34388 Roman activity at Erskine Lodge, Stanningsfield Road, Great Whelnetham (Monument)
Monument Type MSF46654 Roman activity at Johnson's Farm, Leiston (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6271 Roman artefact scatter and site of cinerary burials (Poorly Located Monument)
Monument Type MSF5911 Roman artefact scatter of glass and pottery vessels containing cremations (Poorly Located Monument)
Monument Type MSF5864 Roman artefact scatter of pottery and glass. (Rom) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF14547 Roman artefact scatter of pottery and site of cremations. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF5879 Roman artefact scatter of samian sherds, a pottert flask and a cremation urn. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6425 Roman burials found in a gravel pit (Monument)
Monument Type MSF9145 Roman Camp N of Pakenham windmill (Rom) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF8119 Roman cordoned urn, Broom Hill Farm (Find Spot)
Monument Type MSF5112 Roman cremation with four pots, one with burnt bones. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF4410 Roman cremations and three urns found in army pits. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF4739 Romano British Cemetary, Dales Road, Bolton & Pipe's Brickfield; Knightsdale Road, (IAS 8007, IAS 8008). (Monument)
Monument Type MSF2419 Round Barrow on Blaxhall Common; Blaxhall Heath (Rom) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF2420 Round Barrow on Blaxhall Common; Blaxhall Heath (Un) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6539 Round Barrow. (BA) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6541 Round Barrow. (BA) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF48 Sapiston Bridge (BA) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF22364 Saxon metalwork scatter cemetery (Sax) (PAS find)
Monument Type MSF2480 Scheduled Round barrow E of Chillesford Walks; Money Hill (Monument)
Monument Type MSF8031 Sepulchral urns (Monument)
Monument Type MSF7137 Seven Hills Barrows (Monument)
Monument Type MSF3763 Seven Hills Round Barrows (Monument)
Monument Type MSF16938 Site of 4 barrows, Newmarket Heath; Newmarket Racecourse (Un) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF212 Site of a Roman cremation burial and findspot of six Roman vessels. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF3745 Site of an Anglo Saxon barrow containing a scatter of artefacts including a bead and a bracelet. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF3212 Six Roman urns and a vault, Roses Pit (Poorly Located Find Spot)
Monument Type MSF6885 Skeleton or Black Plantation (Monument)
Monument Type MSF11442 Sproughton Road, Boss Hall Industrial Estate, (IAS 7914). (Monument)
Monument Type MSF4853 St Joseph's College, Ipswich, (IAS 9405). (Find Spot)
Monument Type MSF26574 St Lucy, Church Road, Elmswell (Monument)
Monument Type MSF19039 Stanard Way; 45 Bures Road (Monument)
Monument Type MSF5502 Station Road (Monument)
Monument Type MSF17313 Sutton Hoo Visitor Centre (Preh) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF19231 Sutton Hoo Visitor Centre (Sax) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF8016 Swale's Tumulus (BA) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF8015 Swale's Tumulus (Neo) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF25466 SWISS Centre, Ipswich (Monument)
Monument Type MSF246 The Basin (Monument)
Monument Type MSF3732 The Devil's Ring, Brightwell Heath (BA) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF2807 The Nunnery (Rom) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF3035 The Park (Rom) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF22071 The Sandpits, Station Road, Lakenheath (Monument)
Monument Type MSF8026 Three cremation burials with samian ware found in Worlington parish. (Rom) (Poorly Located Monument)
Monument Type MSF6267 Treakle's Farm, Nr Castlehill Farm. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6581 Tumuli - Part of Eastlow Hill Group (Monument)
Monument Type MSF2391 Tumulii and Sax mixed inhumation and cremation cemetery. (Sax) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF28618 Two Middle Bronze Age cremation burials: A11 - WB (PCA)- AREA 8 (Monument)
Monument Type MSF34867 Urn Field, Allenby Road, (Hadleigh Road), Ipswich, (IAS 7901). (Monument)
Monument Type MSF4530 Valley Farm Sand Pit (Rom) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF5645 Vicarage and cemetery (Monument)
Monument Type MSF23447 Walk Farm (Rom) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF24376 Wangford Quarry Covert Extension (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6375 Water Hall Farm, Roman (Roman) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF3973 Waterloo Plantation (Sax) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6941 West Stow Country Park (Neo) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF6731 Westgarth Gardens (Anglo-Saxon) (Sax) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF5671 Whitestreet Green (Monument)
Monument Type MSF5684 Whitestreet Green (Monument)
Monument Type MSF25406 Windsor Circle, RAF Lakenheath (Preh) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF4270 Woolard's Pit (BA) (Monument)