Aymestrey Burial

The Aymestrey burial was a beaker cist at Aymestrey, Herefordshire, England [1]. While working a gravel quarry at Aymestrey, in June 1987, employees of ARC unearthed a hole with a stone lining, and human remains visible within [1]. They called in archaeologists from Hereford and Worcester County Council, who carried out an excavation and discovered a stone-lined burial pit containing the body of a child, lying on its left-hand side in a foetal position [1]. Alongside the body were an earthenware bell beaker and a flint knife [1]. The burial was dated to the Early Bronze Age [1]. The site lies between the Iron Age hill forts at Pyon Wood and Croft Ambrey, and alongside a tributary of the River Lugg [1].