Thesaurus Term/Concept: CROUCHED INHUMATION

Identifier 70033
Class MONUMENT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note A form of inhumation in which the skeleton is interred, usually on its side, with hip and knee joints bent through an angle of more than 90 degrees.

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Context Record
Monument Type MLI88650 Bronze Age burial and pits, Dalby (Monument)
Monument Type MLI97874 Crouched inhumation burial on land at Manor Farm, Stainton le Vale (Monument)
Monument Type MLI86368 Early Anglo-Saxon cemetery site on land west of South Cliff Farm, South Carlton (Monument)
Monument Type MLI89728 Late Iron Age and early Romano-British settlement, Langton by Wragby (Monument)
Monument Type MLI87599 Middle to late Iron Age and early Roman occupation, Kirkby la Thorpe (Monument)