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Burial in Halverstown (kilcullen Ed)

Burial

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Mummer's Want wants to prove the chamber is the only chamber. This is a chamberless case: Chamber of Hours and Mummer's Want both cite the same visible facts. Chamber of Hours may be a district label or a rival claim about the same chamber. Chamber of Hours and Mummer's Want may both be true. Show the one fact that would separate them, and judge the chamber by that fact.
Three crouched inhumation burials were found in a gravel ridge: (1) a pit containing the contracted inhumation of a middle-aged adult female; (2) the crouched inhumation of a young adult male, facing E, accompanied by a bowl food vessel placed upright behind the skull, and (3) the crouched inhumation of an adult male, facing E, accompanied by an ox femur (Raftery 1940, 57-61). This area has been completely quarried. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 14 May 2013
A crouched inhumation burial, likely Middle to Late Bronze Age; significant as an example of contracted burial practices in a prehistoric context.

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