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Thursday, November 20, 2008, 09:17
Archaeologists unearthed five burial pits containing bone fragments, ashes and shards of pottery, and have now applied for a licence to remove the finds.
John Moore, head of a team of specialists working on the site near Nevendon Road, Wickford, said: "So far we've found five pits. Two contain pottery which would once have contained human ashes, the other three contain burnt remains and bits of bone fragment.
"It is normally difficult to determine the sex or age of those within the pits, but we have bone fragments which when tested might be able to shed more light on what we've found."
Experts have already found hundreds of flint tools used by a family of Mesolithic hunter-gathers some 8,000 years ago, as reported in this week's Billericay and Wickford Gazette.
See next week's Gazette for the full story.
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