What is recorded here
No visible ruin remains in Aughnamullan, but Bronze Age urn burials once lay beneath the soil. People died there, were burned or buried with vessels, and the field continued to live above their ashes. The cairn may have marked the spot or simply disappeared under grass and forgetting.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CAIRN with URN BURIALS (O.S. memoir site, unlocated). Recorded period: BRONZE AGE; PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Bronze Age cairn with urn burials; associated with prehistoric funerary practices in the region.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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