Aymestrey burial

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.

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.

Alongside the body were an earthenware bell beaker and a flint knife.

[1] The site lies between the Iron Age hill forts at Pyon Wood and Croft Ambrey, and alongside a tributary of the River Lugg.

A similar beaker burial site was also discovered in 1987 in Achavanich, Caithness, Scotland.