What is recorded here
Melted butter dripped through my fingers as I carried the warm pot across the kitchen, but I caught it before it struck the child. I poured the butter back into the pot, wiped my hands, and set the food on the table. We ate together in the small house while the storm struck the windows.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CAIRN & URN BURIAL (O.S. memoir site, unlocated). Recorded period: PREHISTORIC; BRONZE AGE. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Bronze Age cairn and urn burial; represents a funerary tradition associated with the deposition of cremated remains in a cairn structure. Such sites are significant for understanding burial practices and social organisation in prehistoric Northern Ireland.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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