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A Roman Cremation Urn
CONTENT WARNING: this post contains photographs of human bone fragments During an excavation in Saggy Horse Field in 2019, a cremation urn and associated votive pottery were found. This is the second cremation burial excavated by SHARP, after excavating “the body in the oven” in 2006, an individual who was buried in the oven of a Roman grain drier with flue system. Map of Sedgeford cremation burials A cremation is the act of burning a human body as a way of treating the dea
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