What is recorded here
Cemetery of three graves excavated in 1953. (1) A cremation in a cist with two bone pendants, (2) a crouched inhumation of an adult in pit with a food vessel sherds, (3) the crouched inhumations of two adult males in a cist with two bowl food vessels (Waddell 1970, 119).
Date of upload: 8 September 2016
A Neolithic burial site, dated to approximately 4000–2500 BCE, significant for its multiple crouched inhumations and cremation, reflecting early funerary practices in Ireland.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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