Chariot Burials
The site of the Arras cemetery is about 200 metres long. The name of the site lends itself to a culture, archaeologically based around chariot burials, across North and East Yorkshire. Other sites that are part of the Arras culture are so named because of the prevalence of cart-burials (two wheels) and/or wagon-burials (four wheels) or small finds similar to those from Arras which are otherwise rare or unique in the British Iron Age. Other sites of similar La Tene period burials within the Arras culture, often with chariot burials include: Cawthorn Camps, Pexton Moor, Seamer, Hunmanby, Burton Fleming, Danes Graves, Garton, Wetwang, Middleton on the Wolds, Beverley and Hornsea. The relative scarcity of chariot burials even within the Arras culture leads to suggestions that the individuals inhumed with chariots represent a local elite. High quality metalwork and the use of imported materials (such as coral) in grave goods corroborates this suggestion.
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