What is recorded here
On a N-facing slope overlooking the valley of a W-E stream. A cist (RO028-195002-) containing a Bowl Food Vessel and a cremation, which may have been under a mound, were recovered in land reclamation in 1965. It is no longer extant. (Lucas 1968, 120-1; Waddell 1990,130; Ó Ríordáin and Waddell 1993, 128)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
A Neolithic cist burial, dating to approximately 2500–2000 BCE, containing a cremation and a Bowl Food Vessel, significant as a rare surviving funerary deposit from the early Bronze Age transition period in the region.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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