[{"id": 135753, "created": "2020-03-29T16:33:50.494795", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 83959, "user_id": 580, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-03-29T17:08:25.746105", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "SD 943;253", "Site": "WEST YORKSHIRE;HALIFAX PARISH;Nr TODMORDEN;Higher Stone Cross Farm;Blackheath", "CollHist": "Manchester Museum (on loan)", "Contents": "Metal\r\n(1) Small bronze knife, 2 rivet-holes\r\n(2) Bronze awl\r\nOther\r\n(3) Collared urn\r\n(4) Cord marked pygmy cup\r\n(5) Several fragments of a bone pin\r\n(6) Bone and clay beads\r\n(7) Collared urn\r\n(8) Smaller collared urn\r\n(9) Two pieces of a bone pin\r\n(10) Set of 14 beads of jet and amber, including 4 segmented faience beads\r\n(11) About 140 sherds of a large urn\r\n(12) Two flint knives\r\n(13) Semi-circular flint scraper\r\n(14) At least six other collared, bipartite or Pennine urns\r\n(15) Two further pygmy cups\r\n(16) Two whetstones\r\n(17) Flint cores, flakes and spalls, scrapers and knife-like blades\r\n(18) Incised bone object\r\n(19) Leaf-shaped flint arrowheads\r\n(20) Charcoal", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec. S.H. 4.5.81.", "ContextType": "2a GRAVE", "BiblioSources": "(a) Law (1895-9) 444-8 (incomplete)\r\n(b) Russel (1906) 307-322. Figs.\r\n(c) Bu'Lock (1961) 15, 41.", "Circumstances": "Found in July 1948 when a ring cairn on Blackheath was investigated by various local gentlemen. A circular bank of stones and earth enclosed an area of about 100 ft (30.5m) diameter, with stone settings at the cardinal points. One cremation had been placed in the bank WNW of centre and the rest lay within the centre. An area of charcoal N of centre probably marked the site of the funerary pyre. It was found that, while the bones in the upright urns were in large fragments, there were also a number of pits containing little or no pottery, but a mass of charcoal mixed with fine powdered bone. It appeared that, after cremation, the main fragments of bone were collected and placed in an urn and the remaining debris, mainly charcoal (20) had been placed in a separate pit. In the centre, a collared urn (3) contained a cremation and a pygmy cup (4). With the bones were several fragments of a bone pin (5) and bone and clay beads (6). The pygmy cup contained a bronze knife (1) and a bronze awl (2). Another collared urn (7) contained a cremation covered by a smaller, inverted urn (8). Among the bones were two pieces of a bone pin (9) and a set of 14 beads (10). About 140 sherds of a large urn (11) found on a stone in the bank had contained a cremation and two flint knives (12). A large semi-circular scraper (13) was found with a cremation in one of the urns it proved impossible to remove entire. At least six other collared, bipartite or Pennine urns (14) were found, and two further pygmy cups (15). During the process of digging two whetstones (16) were found, also many flint cores, flakes and spalls, several scrapers and knife-like blades (17). Part of an incised bone (18) was picked up by a visitor and a leaf-shaped arrowhead (19) was found near the centre by another visitor.", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}, {"id": 136355, "created": "2020-04-28T13:45:14.183972", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 83959, "user_id": 243, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-04-28T13:59:10.206415", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "SD 943; 253", "Site": "WEST YORKSHIRE; HALIFAX PARISH; Nr TODMORDEN; Higher Stone Gross Farm Blackheath", "CollHist": "Manchester Museum (on loan)", "Contents": "Metal; (1) Small bronze knife, 2 rivet-holes; (2) Bronze awl; Other; (3) Collared urn; (4) Cord marked pygmy cup; (5) Several fragments of a bone pin; (6) Bone and clay beads; (7) Collared urn ; (8) Smaller collared urn; (9) Two pieces of a bone pin; (10) Set of 14 heads of jet and amber, including 4 segmented faince beads; (11) About 140 sherds of a large urn; (12) Two flint knives; (13) Semi-cicular flint scraper; (14) At least six other collared, bipartite or Pennine urns; (15) Two further pygmy cups; (16) Two whetstones; (17) Flint cores, flakes and spalls, scrapers and knife-like blades; (18) Incised bone object; (19) Leaf-shaped flint arrowheads; (20) Charcoal", "comments": "Circumstances state that the cairn was investigated in July 1948, but first two bibliography references are from 1895 and 1906.  Information about finds from those sources not recorded on card.  Figures for reference (b) not listed", "ArchiveEtc": "[Rec.] S.H. 4.5.81.", "ContextType": "2a GRAVE", "BiblioSources": "(a) Law (1895-9) 444-8 (Incomplete); (b) Russell (1906) 307-322. Figs.; (c) Bu'Lock (1961) 15, 41.", "Circumstances": "Found in July 1948 when a ring cairn on Blackheath was investigated by various local gentlemen.  A circular bank of stones and earth enclosed an area of about 100 ft (30.5m) diameter, with stone settings at the cardinal points.  One cremation had been placed in the bank WNW of centre and the rest lay within the centre.  An area of charcoal N of centre probably marked the site of the funerary pyre.  It was found that, while the bones in the upright urns were in large fragments, there were also a number of pits containing little or no pottery, but a mass of charcoal mixed with fine powdered bone.  It appeared that, after cremation, the main fragments of bone were collected and placed in an urn and the remaining debris, mainly charcoal (20) had been placed in a separate pit.  In the centre, a collared urn (3) contained a cremation and a pygmy cup (4).  With the bones were several fragments of a bone pin (5) and bone and clay beads (6).  The pygmy cup contained a bronze knife (1) and a bronze awl (2).  Another collared urn (7) contained a cremation covered by a smaller, inverted urn (8).  Among the bones were two pieces of a bone pin (9) and a set of 14 beads (10).  About 140 sherds of a large urn (11) found on a stone in the bank had contained a cremation and two flint knives (12).  A large semi-circular scraper (13) was found with a cremation in one of the urns it proved impossible to remove entire.  At least six other collared, bipartite or Pennine urns (14) were found, and two further pygmy cups (15).  During the process of digging two whetstones (16) were found, also many flint cores, flakes and spalls, several scrapers and knife-like blades (17).  Part of an incised bone (18) was picked up by a visitor and a leaf-shaped arrowhead (19) was found near the centre by another visitor.", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}]