Cronk Aust Urn Burial
The record for the burial within the Bronze Age barrow PRN 0467.00. About the centre of the mound, at a depth of 1.6 metres, an urn was found. A second urn was also found 1.8 metres from the first. Both were filled with calcined bones. Both were subsequently destroyed. They measured between 30cm and 60cm in height and were wide at the mouth, gradually narrowing to the bottom. The first was well baked and it walls up to 9mm thick. Within the rim was an angular waved band sharply cut and slightly raised. Outside were two rows of elliptic but rather pointed figures covered with finely crossed lines. At the bottom was a roughly drawn five pointed star. The outside of the urn was thus entirely ornamented. It was filled with calcined bones and was placed mouth upwards but was broken and later pieced together. The second, larger, urn was only slightly ornamented with small dots or holes in lines. It was full of calcined bones and inverted. There were deposits of calcined bones and ashes within the Tumulus.
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- Parish: Lezayre
- Sheading: Ayre
- Grid Ref: SC4376096620
Sources
- Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record