Evergreen Dazed wrote:
'...cremations in turf mounds followed by later inhumations (once the barrow cemetery began the barrows were built and used chronologically in a period between 110 -260 years , one being built after the previous had been “used up” )'
A new barrow built only after the later inhumations? Is that what is meant by "used up"? Am I reading that right?
Yes, the authors used the term "used up " so I kept it .
The sequence was initial inhumations in flat graves followed by cremations in a turf mound then after that barrow was "used up" there were further and later inhumations in one case above earlier (a century )inhumations , but still in a flat grave . This was then covered with a turf mound which then incorporated cremations .
It is not a straightforward linear sequence of burial type but it is for the barrow construction .
Because of the finer detail in dating it shows that variabilty was key ,without it , it would probably have been read as inhumation followed by cremation and the sequential barrow building unrecognised .
