Applegarth
Unlike neolithic people who usually buried their dead communally
in chambered tombs, Bronze Age people preferred to bury their dead
singly. During the early part of the period people were usually
buried in a crouched position in stone cists, but later cremation
was preferred with the remains interred in urns like these. They
created cemeteries by burying several urns at one site, sometimes
marking it with a cairn or mound of earth and stones. The urns were
often buried upside down. They were decorated with twisted cord or
string impressions and incised and impressed oval, circular and
diamond shapes.