urnfield

[ urn-feeld ]

noun

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

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of urnfield¹

First recorded in 1885–90; urn + field