| Cave Burial

Bower Farm

Excavation

1979, Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit.

Curation

City Museum, Stoke on Trent.

Burials

MNI: 5 (3 adults, 2 juveniles).

Finds

Mesolithic flints and hearth.

Dates

Period	Reliability
Neolithic	¹⁴C date obtained directly on human remains
Mesolithic	¹⁴C date obtained directly on human remains

¹⁴C

8170 bp (OxA-16865), 4724 bp (OxA-16864), 4725 bp (OxA-16866) on human bone.

Field Glossary

Rugely

Staffordshire

Midlands

NGR: SK 0303 1954

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External References

National Monuments Record	SK 01 NW 16
Sites and Monument Record	04055

Bibliography

Blockley, S.M. (2006) Living and dying in transition: funerary behaviour, subsistence and landscape use in Britain 16,000-6,000 Cal BP. Unpublished PhD. Thesis, University of Bradford.

Cane, C. & Cane, J. (1986) The excavation of a Mesolithic cave site near Rugely, Staffordshire. Staffordshire Archaeology Studies 3: 1-12

Hilton, C. (1979) Bower Farm, near Rugely. CBA Newsheet, Group 8 22: 7.

Meiklejohn, C. et al. (2011) Radiocarbon dating of Mesolithic human remains in Great Britain. Mesolithic Miscellany 21: 20-58.

Article Author Graham Mullan