Unusual Burial of a “Squatting Man” Unearthed at Renowned Archaeological Site

The excavations and results of the studies will be shared in time with the local community. John Mann, Managing Director of Redrow, said he wanted to provide an “heritage of archives whose future generations can benefit”.

Previously, archaeologists thought that the discovered village had been founded at the beginning of the Middle Ages (800). “” “It is fascinating to discover that a community lived in this region thousands of years earlier than we thought before ”, Paul Smites told the British media.

A richer understanding of people's lifestyle “of the time thanks to excavations

Archaeologists have discovered two burials, including an incineration that would date from the Iron Age, the Protohistory period (from 800 BCE at the end of the 1st century AD). But they also found bronze age pottery (from -2200 to -800) as well as vestiges of a colony, also of the Iron Age.

In addition to proof that the region was inhabited in much older than expected times, these archaeological vestiges also bring a “richer understanding of the territory and the lifestyles of people”, As Paul Smites, managing director of Bellway Northern Home Couties said, who ordered these excavations with the BBC.

Disturbing elements discovered within the tombs

Among the discoveries of the museum, several disturbing elements, including a burial of what seems to be an adult man crouching. For specialists, this strange posture is extremely curious. Studies are already underway to try to understand how this individual died.

Archaeologists have also found a strange urn present in the cremated burial. The organization declared in a press release that this cremation “Also contained small pieces of iron-perhaps remains of nails of the funeral stake ”.