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Bronze Age house, burnt mounds, troughs, pit cremation, and Iron Age barrow in Carnmeen

Bronze Age house, burnt mounds, troughs, pit cremation, and Iron Age barrow

What is recorded here

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as Bronze Age house, burnt mounds, troughs, pit cremation, and Iron Age barrow. Recorded period: BRONZE AGE; IRON AGE. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Bronze Age domestic and ritual features, including a house, burnt mounds, troughs, and a pit cremation, with an overlying Iron Age barrow, indicating long-term ceremonial use of the site. Its significance lies in the rare combination of Bronze Age domestic and funerary remains with a later Iron Age monument.

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What survives
Recorded monument

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