What is recorded here
Cist in Grange (ballintober South By.) is a cist in Grange (ballintober South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. Grave 13 measures 0.84 metres north-south, 0.57 metres east-west and 0.52 metres high beneath a 1.5 by 1.15 metre capstone. It held two bowl food vessels and a large deposit of cremated bone. The chamber sat in the subsoil just northwest of the cairn centre.
Grave 13 is a cist (int. dims. 0.84 N-S; 0.57m E-W; H 0.52m) with a capstone (dims. c. 1.5m x 1.15m) which contained two bowl food vessels and a large deposit of cremated bone. It was set in the subsoil just NW of the centre of the cairn (RO028-204002-).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Cist burial, likely dating to the Early Christian or Early Medieval period. Its significance lies in the presence of cremated remains and food vessels, suggesting ritual funerary practices associated with this transitional period in Irish burial traditions.
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- What survives
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