Erschienen in:
Documents d'Archéologie Méridionale, 23 (2000) 1, Seite 209-217
Sprache:
Französisch
DOI:
10.3406/dam.2000.1140
ISSN:
0184-1068
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A cremation was discovered during a programme of trial trenching that aimed to ascertain the chronology of the Mourrel-Ferrat oppidum (Hérault) and to date the walls and embankments. The cremation was found in a pit dug into the gelifracted limestone. In the upper layers of the deposit the following elements were discovered : a handful of burnt human bones, plus splinters of animal bones, a deer bone, burnt grain, an iron knife, a fragment of an massaliete amphorae handle plus some shards of hand-thrown pottery. This discovery could indicate that there was cemetery within the fortifications, thus supplying us with some interesting perspectives vis a vis funerary practices at the end of the early and the beginning of the late Iron Ages.