Burial in Margaretstown — Report the wrong picture

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Margaretstown holds an Early-Christian burial hidden in low pasture near St. Movee's ground. A shallow limestone pit narrowed like a sleeping body, waiting beneath ordinary soil until shed foundations broke the surface. The dead person lay without goods, accompanied only by flint fragments that may have belonged to someone else entirely.

In low-lying pasture close to St. Movee's burial ground. Discovered while digging foundations for a shed. The remains comprised the lower portion of an unaccompanied inhumation enclosed in a pit lined with limestone slabs. Aligned E-W narrowing at the E end (L1.7m, Wth 0.4m). Probably of Early-Christian date. Three pieces of unworked flint pebbles and a retouched piece were found at the site (Stout 1992, 17-18). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 15 November 2014

A Neolithic inhumation burial, likely dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Its significance lies in providing evidence of early funerary practices and burial rites in the region.

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