Human remains found in Bronze Age pots (Scotland)

BBC ^ | March 9, 2011 | Unknown

[decimon]

Two Bronze Age burial pots containing human remains have been found at the base of a standing stone in Angus.

Archaeologists excavated the ground around the Carlinwell Stone at Airlie, near Kirriemuir, after it fell over earlier in the winter.

Both pots - known as collared urns - could be up to 4,000 years old and were typically used in early Bronze age cremation burials.

The 7ft (2.1m) high monolith will be re-erected on Friday.

One of the pots is about 4in (10cm) in diameter, and the other is about 8in, the archaeologists said.

Melanie Johnson, from CFA Archaeology of Musselburgh, said: "The pots are typical of early Bronze Age cremation burials.

"People were burned on pyres and their remains gathered, put into pots and buried upside down in a pit."

[decimon]

Ping pong with pit pots, eh?

We could go back and forth with this but...

[sionnsar]

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[wildbill]

Whew! The headline read like my ancestors might be cannibals.

Angles and Saxons—the other white meat.

[decimon]

The headline read like my ancestors might be cannibals.

Might have been and regardless of who they were.

[ZULU]

Maybe they were just sloppy housekeepers.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, nothin’ would surprise me about those haggis-eatin’, claymore swingin’, kilt-wearin’ bastards.

;’) It’s okay, I can say that about my own people. :’)