urnfield

American  

[urn-feeld] / ˈɜrnˌfild /

noun

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

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urnfield British  

/ ˈɜːnˌfiːld /

noun

1. a cemetery full of individual cremation urns

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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

Etymology

Origin of urnfield

First recorded in 1885–90; urn + field