What is recorded here

You can still picture the buried chamber through the missing ground: a quiet house for the dead that the quarry took. The vessels and bones appeared in 1935, then more cremated remains and a knife in 1943, as if the land kept giving up its kept thing. What the pit removed is not loss but permission to stop pretending the story needs a visible marker.

From a location named ‘Gravel pit’ on the OS 25-inch map and visible as a quarry/sand pit on a 2005 aerial photo (OSi Orthophoto). In 1935, two skeletons, four Food Vessels, and an Encrusted Urn were found in a sand pit here (NM1 1935 (443-7, 447a, b), and in 1943, cremated bones, an Encrusted Urn and a slug knife were found a short distance to the NW (NMI 1943 9368-370). Area appears to have been quarried away since. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 29 May 2012

A Neolithic burial with food vessels and an encrusted urn, dating to approximately 2500–2000 BCE, indicating early ceremonial or funerary practices associated with the passage tomb culture of Ireland.

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