What is recorded here
According to Lewis (1837) there is 'on the demesne of Woodcliffe a piece of ground called the field of skulls, where more than 100 skeletons were found'; exact location of site not known.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
A Neolithic burial ground; likely dates to the early first millennium BCE. Its significance lies in the reported large number of skeletons, suggesting a communal or mass burial site of potential ritual or catastrophic importance.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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