Thesaurus Term/Concept: CONTRACTED INHUMATION

Identifier	70032
Class	MONUMENT TYPE
Status	Preferred
Index?	Yes
Scope Note	A form of inhumation in which the skeleton is interred, usually on its side, with the knees brought up against the chest. This is a more extreme form of crouched inhumation.

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Instances/Examples (7)

Context	Record
Monument Type	MKE97616 Bronze Age Barrow with Secondary Burials and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, Bay Hill, St Margaret's-at-Cliffe (Monument)
Monument Type	MKE80283 Bronze Age burial mound, Neats Court (Monument)
Monument Type	MKE19909 Crouched inhumation burial, Sarre (Monument)
Monument Type	MKE2259 Prehistoric burials and cremations, Epps Farm (Monument)
Monument Type	MWX19390 Probable Iron Age Contracted Inhumation (Monument)
Monument Type	MWX20647 Romano British Ditch & Pits, Gravesend & North Kent Hospital (Monument)
Monument Type	MKE1536 Site of barrow (contracted primary; 5 secondary burials), cropmark (Monument)