urnfield
[ urn-feeld ]
noun
a Bronze Age cemetery in which the ashes of the dead were buried in urns.
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urnfield
/ (ˈɜːnˌfiːld) /
noun
a cemetery full of individual cremation urns
adjective
(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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