What is recorded here
Losset is named in an official cist burial record but no exact place is preserved. The gap is not a mistake of imagination; it is a refusal to invent. I can describe the region, the cist tradition and the risk of false precision, but I will not claim that Losset contains a known cist when the evidence does not say so.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CIST BURIALS (O.S. memoir site; unlocated). Recorded period: BRONZE AGE; UNCERTAIN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Cist burials from the Bronze Age, typically stone-covered graves, are significant for understanding early burial practices and social structures in prehistoric Northern Ireland. Their presence in Losset suggests local habitation and ritual activity during this period.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
CASTLE (O.S. memoir site; unlocated) in LossetCASTLE (O.S. memoir site; unlocated) · 1 yd
CASTLE (destroyed): CASTLE CULBERT in BrackneyCASTLE (destroyed): CASTLE CULBERT · 511 yd
ENCLOSURE in EglishENCLOSURE · 1685 yd
MOUND or ENCLOSURE: CAHIR RIGH in BallynagloghMOUND or ENCLOSURE: CAHIR RIGH · 1.1 mi
Culfeightrin ChurchChurch · 1.2 mi
Ballycastle ForestForest · 1.3 mi
Ballycastle BeachBeach / strand · 1.6 mi
County Primary SchoolSchool · 1.8 mi
Ballycastle HarbourVisitor information · 1.9 mi
MarconiMemorial · 1.9 mi