(of a number of Bronze Age cultures) characterized by cremation in urns, which began in E Europe about the second millennium bc and by the seventh century bc had covered almost all of mainland Europe
urnfield in American English
(ˈɜːrnˌfild)
noun
a Bronze Age cemetery in which the ashes of the dead were buried in urns
Word origin
[1885–90; urn + field]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: booster, classified, retread, scrum, upsweep