{"id":842,"date":"2007-03-24T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=842"},"modified":"2007-03-24T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T18:19:00","slug":"the-national-british-pagan-burial-mound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"The National British Pagan Burial Mound"},"content":{"rendered":"

I blogged earlier about how some British Pagans have borrowed the rhetoric of North American tribes, wanting their own version of NAGPRA<\/a> and control over the remains of prehistoric British people<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Blogger and academic Yvonne Aburrow suggests that such remains, after study, might go into a national burial mound<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It would be wonderful if a keeping place for the ancient British dead could be specially constructed, perhaps in the form of a very large Iron Age roundhouse, or a burial mound, where the dead could be kept in special shrines, with all the details known about them and their lives displayed near them, but still allowing archaeologists access for research.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I blogged earlier about how some British Pagans have borrowed the rhetoric of North American tribes, wanting their own version of NAGPRA and control over the remains of prehistoric British people. Blogger and academic Yvonne Aburrow suggests that such remains, after study, might go into a national burial mound. 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It is often believed to be a king's burial site, since it contained armor and weapons, a lyre, gold coins, and many rich grave goods\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"archaeology\"","block_context":{"text":"archaeology","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=archaeology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pasthorizonspr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/suttontop.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pasthorizonspr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/suttontop.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pasthorizonspr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/suttontop.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11557,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11557","url_meta":{"origin":842,"position":2},"title":"Another Strange Old-Time Pagan Burial Custom","author":"Chas S. 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