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Cist in Grange (ballintober South By.) is a cist in Grange (ballintober South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. Grave 3 is a cist with a double capstone that contained a bowl food vessel and an inhumed child. It sat in the subsoil about 1.2m outside the kerb of a cairn to the north. The site produced a radiocarbon date of 2458-2032 Cal.

Grave 3 is a cist (int. dims 0.38m E-W; 0.35m N-S; H 0.35m) with a double capstone (dims c. 0.87m x c. 0.8m; T 0.35m) which contained a bowl food vessel and an inhumed child. It was set in the subsoil c. 1.2m outside the kerb of cairn (RO028-204002-) at N. It produced a radiocarbon date of 2458-2032 Cal. BC (Brindley 1997, 57). (Ó Ríordáin 1997, 47) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

A Neolithic cist burial, dating to approximately 4000–2500 BCE, containing a child and a food vessel, reflecting early funerary practices and social structures in the region.

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