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Burial in Clane

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On top of a small escarpment overlooking a glacial overflow channel. A small Neolithic cemetery was discovered during bulldozing in 1971. It comprised; an oval pit containing the crouched inhumation of an eleven year old child and the inhumation of a fifteen year old youth accompanied by a lignite bracelet fragment and sherds of a round-bottomed decorated bowl; a pit containing the crouched inhumation of an adult male and the inhumation of an adult, disturbed before examination. A third burial was destroyed a year previously (Ryan 1979-80, 108-11).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD014-019

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  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Harold Strong, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, irelandinruins.blogspot.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, uk.pinterest.com
  • Clane GAA / ClubZap; individual aerial photographer not stated, dashboard.clubzap.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
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