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 (95)

Context Record
Monument Type MDO19067 Albert Road/Cornwall Road, Dorchester; Roman burials (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18523 Alington Avenue; Bronze Age Cremation 1030 (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18519 Alington Avenue; Bronze Age Cremation 209 (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18520 Alington Avenue; Bronze Age Cremation 326 (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18521 Alington Avenue; Bronze Age Cremation 327 (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18522 Alington Avenue; Bronze Age Cremation 782 (Monument)
Monument Type MDO8726 Bargates, Christchurch: Bronze Age ring ditches and burials (Monument)
Monument Type MDO47792 Barrow in the Lanceborough Group, Winterborne Monkton (Monument)
Monument Type MDO47693 Barrow on Owermoigne Heath, Owermoigne (Monument)
Monument Type MDO47128 Barrow, Charlton Down, Charlton Marshall (Monument)
Monument Type MDO47725 Barrow, Dewlish (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19087 Beggar's Knap, Great Western Road, Dorchester; Roman burials (Monument)
Monument Type MDO5258 Bell barrow north west of West Down, Winterborne Kingston (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6339 Bell barrow on Bottlebush Down, Wimborne St Giles (Monument)
Monument Type MDO5820 Bell Barrow west of Veiny Cheese Pond, Long Crichel (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6781 Bell barrow, Barrow Hill Group, Poole (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6784 Bell barrow, one of the Barrow Hill Group, Poole (Monument)
Monument Type MWX3661 Bestwall Quarry Archaeological Project, Field J, Bronze Age domestic area and cremations (Monument)
Monument Type MWX3673 Bestwall Quarry Archaeological Project, Field N, Roman cremations and pits (Monument)
Monument Type MWX3644 Bestwall Quarry Archaeological Project, Field R, Bronze Age settlement (Monument)
Monument Type MDO3184 Bowl barrow in the Eweleaze Barn group, Winterborne St Martin (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6338 Bowl barrow on Bottlebush Down, Wimborne St Giles (Monument)
Monument Type MDO8745 Bowl barrow on St Catherine's Hill, Christchurch (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6096 Bowl Barrow one of the Scrubbity Barrows, Sixpenny Handley (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6097 Bowl Barrow one of the Scrubbity Barrows, Sixpenny Handley (Monument)
Monument Type MDO7135 Bowl barrow, Bere Regis (Monument)
Monument Type MDO7992 Bowl barrow, Godlingston Hill, Swanage (Monument)
Monument Type MDO3185 Bowl barrow, one of the Eweleaze Barn group, Winterborne St Martin (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6084 Bowl barrow, Sixpenny Handley (Monument)
Monument Type MDO47793 Bronze Age Barrow north of Maiden Castle, Winterborne St Martin (Monument)
Monument Type MDO47794 Bronze Age Barrow north of Maiden Castle, Winterborne St Martin (Monument)
Monument Type MDO47795 Bronze Age Barrow north of Maiden Castle, Winterborne St Martin (Monument)
Monument Type MDO47824 Bronze Age Barrow on Came Down, Winterborne Came (Monument)
Monument Type MDO47825 Bronze Age Barrow on Came Down, Winterborne Came (Monument)
Monument Type MDO47804 Bronze Age barrow, Bincombe (Monument)
Monument Type MDO47808 Bronze Age barrows, Keyneston Down, Tarrant Keyneston (Monument)
Monument Type MDO8482 Bronze Age burial, near Tuckton Bridge, Bournemouth (Find Spot)
Monument Type MDO7517 Bronze Age cremation at Bucknowle Farm, Corfe Castle (Monument)
Monument Type MDO8562 Bronze Age cremation burial at Cheddington Road, Bournemouth (Monument)
Monument Type MDO8460 Bronze Age cremation burial found in East Cemetery, Bournemouth (Monument)
Monument Type MDO8459 Bronze Age cremation burial from near Kings Park, Bournemouth (Monument)
Monument Type MDO8461 Bronze Age cremation burial, Bournemouth (Monument)
Monument Type MDO8768 Bronze Age cremation burial, Christchurch (Monument)
Monument Type MDO8557 Bronze Age cremation found at The Slope, Headswell Crescent, Bournemouth (Monument)
Monument Type MDO8452 Bronze Age cremation from Boscombe, Bournemouth (Monument)
Monument Type MDO3681 Bronze age cremation, Charlton Marshall (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6920 Bronze Age cremation, Moortown Aerodrome, Poole (Monument)
Monument Type MDO8671 Bronze Age urned cremation burial behind Christchurch Station (Monument)
Monument Type MDO8433 Bronze Age urned cremation burial, Castle Lane, Bournemouth (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6797 Bronze Age urned cremation, 100 Willett Road, Poole (Monument)
Monument Type MDO2665 Burial site with late Celtic mirror, on the cliff west of Bridport harbour (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18070 Burial within the Neolithic enclosure at Flagstones, Dorchester (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19096 Colliton Street, Dorchester; possible Roman cremation (Monument)
Monument Type MDO1895 Cremation burial in a barrow, Piddlehinton (Monument)
Monument Type MDO1430 Enclosure, possibly a henge, Litton Cheney (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18753 Fairfield Road, Dorchester; Roman Cremation Burial 164 (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19126 Fairfield Road, Dorchester; Roman Cremation Burial 169 (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18078 Flagstones cremation pit 00256 (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18079 Flagstones cremation pit 00258 (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18077 Flagstones cremation pit 00260 (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18767 Fordington Farm round barrow, Dorchester; round barrow (Monument)
Monument Type MDO2401 Fosters School, Tinney's Lane, Sherborne; possible middle Bronze Age cremation cemetery (Monument)
Monument Type MWX3217 Hurn Court Farm, Hurn, Christchurch (Monument)
Monument Type MWX407 Inhumations and cremations, Combe Fields Quarry, Portland (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6284 Iron Age and Romano-British settlement on Oakley Down, Wimborne St Giles (Monument)
Monument Type MDO8663 Latch Farm, Christchurch: Bronze Age beakers Urns and cremations (Monument)
Monument Type MWX3242 Late Bronze Age cremation burial, Parley Lane, Hurn, Christchurch (Monument)
Monument Type MDO43287 Maiden Castle #34c (Monument)
Monument Type MDO8670 Mill Plain, Christchurch; possible Romano-British cremation and settlement (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18775 New rugby ground, Coburg Road, Dorchester; Early-Middle Bronze Age cremation 79 (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18774 New rugby ground, Coburg Road, Dorchester; Early-Middle Bronze Age cremation 98 (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18922 Old Vicarage, Fordington; Roman cremation C1/3 (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18923 Old Vicarage, Fordington; Roman cremation C2 (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19058 Olga Road, Dorchester; Roman burials (Monument)
Monument Type MDO5526 Penny's Farm, Cranborne; Romano-British cremation burial (Monument)
Monument Type MDO1653 Pit north of Holywell Crossroads, Melbury Bubb (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18309 Poundbury Development, Phase II; Cremation 39 (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18310 Poundbury Development, Phase II; Cremation 62 (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18393 Poundbury Late Roman East Peripheral Burial Group (Monument)
Monument Type MDO40187 Ring ditch on Ogden Down, Gussage St Michael (Monument)
Monument Type MDO45514 Ring ditch on Ogden Down, Gussage St Michael (Monument)
Monument Type MDO5311 Ring-ditch with cremation burial, Quarleston Farm, Winterborne Stickland (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6414 Roman barrow at Knobs Crook, Woodlands (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6663 Roman cremation, St Nicholas's churchyard, Broadwey, Weymouth (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19032 Roman infant cremation, Marks and Spencer, 48 South Street, Dorchester (Monument)
Monument Type MDO5459 Romano British cremations, Cogdean Elms, Corfe Mullen (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6077 Round barrow on Gussage Hill, Sixpenny Handley (Monument)
Monument Type MDO47157 Round barrow on north-west side of Milborne Wood, Dewlish (Monument)
Monument Type MDO47803 Round barrow, Hampreston (Monument)
Monument Type MDO8472 Saxon cremation, Iford Bridge, Bournemouth (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6681 St Alban's Street, Weymouth: Bronze Age Cremation (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6186 Stephen's Castle, Verwood (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6148 The Shapwick Barrow, Sturminster Marshall (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6925 Unurned cremation, Strawberry Field, Knighton Farm, Magna Road, Poole (Monument)
Monument Type MDO8586 Urned cremation burial, East Avenue, Bournemouth (Monument)