BRONZE AGE BURIALS

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3717, 2 November 1926, Page 7

BRONZE AGE BURIALS

A discovery of unusual interest has been ma«#e during excavations in one of the round harrows at Dunstable by the University College and Hospital Anthropological Society. Five years ago a group of medical students from the college took uj) the arciueological work in the Dunstable area that had been interrupted by the death of Air Worthington Smith, a well-known local antiquarian. Recently' the work was resumed, under the charge of Air Daryll Forde. on knoll No. 5, the most northerly of the group, and it was found to be quite intact. No less titan ton intrusive burials were found near the surface, apparently of Middle bronze Age, some of them cremated and others not. But they appear to he contemporaneous, because there was a. close association between a Bronze Age cinerary urn and one of the bodies—a typical robust, broad-headed man, oft Sin iu height. Eventually the primary burial of about 1200 u.c. was found iu an elliptical liolo cut in the chalk—the bones of a slenderly built woman of Mediterranean type, oft 2iu in height, of middle ago, lying on her right side sharply Hexed. Many years before her death her left forearm had been broken near the wrist, 'the remains will eventually be house i in the Dunstable Museum.—‘Times.’