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discovery came from archaeological excavations in the 1970s, which
revealed an Iron Age, Roman & Saxon farmstead settlement where the
Harrold-Odell Country Park lake now exists.
Cremation cemeteries datable to the period
AD 25 - 50 lay outside the homestead of the early farm. The discovery
of bronze brooches with this material, themselves unburnt, suggests
that the comminuted bone was originally contained within fastened
textile bags or leather pouches.
Pig bones were the evidence for food offerings,
while other food and drink could have been contained in some of
the twenty-eight pots found buried in the pits. This also suggests
offerings to ancestors in the practices of burying the dead.
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