What is recorded here

In 1953, turf-cutters in County Kildare broke through earth to reveal a young man buried between 200 and 400 AD. He lay headless at nearly two metres depth, wrapped in woollen cloth and ox skin beneath a mat of interwoven sticks. The discovery suggests a deliberate ritual rather than a casual dump, preserving the shape of a life that ended before written history forgot it.

Discovered by turf-cutters in 1953 and subsequently archaeologically excavated. The burial occurred under a layer of small, partially interwoven sticks, at a depth of 1.9m below a neighbouring turf-bank, and consisted of the apparently headless remains of a 25-30 year old adult male wrapped in an inner covering of woollen textile and an outer covering of ox skin. A radio-carbon date of 1725+/-30 BP (GrN - 14758) dates the burial to between 200 and 400 AD. (O'Floinn 1991, 148-50). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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