At County of Devonin the southwest UKoh Dartmoor National Park 90,000 euros will be invested Excavation of one of the most important Bronze Age burial mounds in the British Isles.
BC It may be as significant as the find on Whitehorse Hill near Cranmere Pond, which belonged to a woman’s grave circa 1700, and provided a picture of early medieval life, as shown in the video below.
A Burial chamber It was discovered about two years ago after the peat soil around it was eroded. A Peat has great potential in preserving biological and archaeological remains, human remains have been preserved in peat bogs for thousands of years, where some of the largest fossils such as “bog bodies” have been discovered. Peat provides water-holding properties, which together with oxygen deprivation, Delays bacterial spoilage and improves preservation.
However, this finding Early Bronze Age cemetery. So far, the archaeologists involved in the excavations think it is probably A A burial chamber is usually constructed of a few large slabs of stone. There are many of them on Dartmoor, dating back to prehistoric times and the megalithic period. Many excavations were carried out, mostly in the Victorian period, before archaeological techniques became more sophisticated.
It dates from the early Bronze Age It is incredibly well preserved due to the charcoal that covers it. This means that even clothing and artefacts valuable to archaeologists can be exceptionally well preserved.
A site location Not disclosed As stated therein Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) to prevent it from being disturbed before it is fully excavated and analyzed.
Another important finding was the amount of money raised
The committee members decided Raise money with effort To propagate Funding at the meetingTaking into account the higher excavation costs this implies.
Reflecting on the idea of ​​excavating rather than hiding it, authority chief Pamela Woods told BBC Devon: “Very exciting. We can’t stop doing this. We are fascinated by this.”
This may change a previous significant finding, a Whitehorse Hill chamber discovered in the 1990s as a result of erosion on the side of a peat mound. It occurred to the archaeologists that erosion was taking place very quickly and as a result, the find would be destroyed. The young woman in the room was wearing an amber necklace, which shows that inhabitants of Dartmoor traded all the way to the Baltic in the Early Bronze Age.
A new discovery on Dartmoor will also reveal surprising new discoveries following careful excavations supported by fundraising.
