The most spectacular was an Iron Age chariot burial, from (400-200 BC).

It was in an Iron Age cemetery, amongst simpler burials, so the man was probably a local chief, and had had a better diet than most of the community.

The chariot was made from bits of old chariots, some of which would no longer be usable, and did not fit properly into the grave.

It must have been an important ceremony to be buried in a chariot. The burial had been surrounded by a rectangular ditch.

In Roman times (200-400 AD), the ditch had been filled with the heads and right forelimbs of at least 160 cattle.

As they were all slaughtered at the same time in the late autumn and came from different herds it was probably done as a ritual. But this was only one of many important finds.

There were Bronze Age burials from 2,500, 2,000, 1800, & 1,300 BC.

One person was buried in a local tree trunk with a tin-copper bronze dagger from southern Ireland, an archer's decorative wrist guard made of volcanic rock from Langdale (Cumbria), and a Yorkshire decorated pottery beaker.

The Lancashire Archaeological Society has seven indoor meetings a year at the United Reformed Church on Symonds Road (between Blackpool Road and the Withy Trees), Fulwood, Preston, normally on the third Friday of the month at 7.45pm, entry £2.00 for non-members, free for members.

All are welcome. There are also three excursions in the summer. Our next meeting is on November 28th (note this is the fourth Friday) when Mavis Shannon will talk on Boxgrove man - life in Britain half a million years ago.

For further information please contact Mavis Shannon 01772 709187 or Janet Edmunds 01772 856796 or visit our website a href="http://www.lancsarchsoc.org.uk">www.lancsarchsoc.org.uk.

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