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Pitty Close Farm finds

29 May 2026

Kat Baxter, Leeds Museums and Galleries’ curator of archaeology, with some of the ancient Bronze Age finds made at Pitty Close Farm in Drighlington, Leeds. As well as the cremated remains of a child and three adults, the dig uncovered fragments of a decorated clay urn, part of a pin which was carefully carved from a piece of animal bone and the shattered blade of a delicately honed flint knife.

Pitty Close Farm finds: Kat Baxter, Leeds Museums and Galleries’ curator of archaeology, with some of the ancient Bronze Age finds made at Pitty Close Farm in Drighlington, Leeds. As well as the cremated remains of a child and three adults, the dig uncovered fragments of a decorated clay urn, part of a pin which was carefully carved from a piece of animal bone and the shattered blade of a delicately honed flint knife.
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