Burial in Coldwinters (balrothery East By.) — Report the wrong picture

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Coldwinters holds seven dead aligned west beneath a fifty-metre circular ditch near Balbriggan. They lay stretched without goods while animal bones and iron slag scattered around them, suggesting a working settlement rather than a sacred shrine. The western heading repeats across every grave, imposing a strange uniformity on lives now lost to time.

Excavations (Licence no. 99E0548) in 2001 on the Airport-Balbriggan Northern Route revealed substantial remains of a large circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) which was defined by a ditch (Wth 2.45m, d 1-1.5m). It contained animal bones, flint and iron slag. It enclosed three smaller ditches within which were six human burials. All were aligned E-W with their heads to the W. All were extended, inhumations with no grave goods. A sub-rectangular ditch running from the edge of the large enclosing ditch contained a single human burial within a slab-lined grave. Date uncertain (Opie 2003, 89). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 07 January 2015

A large circular enclosure, likely of Bronze Age date, characterized by a substantial ditch. Its significance lies in its scale and context within a prehistoric landscape undergoing modern infrastructure development.

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