Ingleby Barwick Cemetery

When police found human remains at a Stockton building site foul play was suspected. However the bodies turned out to be over 4000 years old and are an almost unique example of an Early Bronze Age cemetery with an unparalleled wealth of metalwork and grave goods.

In late November 1996 builders cutting a new road found human bones in their spoil. The police and Tees Archaeology were called to the site to investigate. Initial examination showed that two individual burials had been disturbed. A piece of Beaker pottery dating to between 2100BC and 1700BC was also discovered. It soon became apparent that the human remains were extremely ancient and the site was subject to a rapidly organised salvage excavation.

Ingleby Barwick Cemetery

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