urnfield

[ urn-feeld ]

noun
  1. a Bronze Age cemetery in which the ashes of the dead were buried in urns.

Origin of urnfield

1
First recorded in 1885–90; urn + field

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British Dictionary definitions for urnfield

urnfield

/ (ˈɜːnˌfiːld) /


noun
  1. a cemetery full of individual cremation urns

adjective
  1. (of a number of Bronze Age cultures) characterized by cremation in urns, which began in E Europe about the second millennium bc and by the seventh century bc had covered almost all of mainland Europe

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