Cist in Woodpole, County Meath

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What is recorded here

A short cist was discovered in October 1997 while landscaping a garden. The cist was disturbed but the original structure (dims c. 66m x c. 64m; H 0.3m) was constructed of at least four side-slabs with an oval capstone (dims 0.75m x 0.45m; T 0.1m), and it had a hard pebble clay floor. The contents of the cist had been disturbed and only a small quantity of cremated bone representing an adult female and a neonatal were recovered in addition to 15 fragments of a shouldered bowl with poorly executed comb-impressed decoration. (Cahill 2011) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 February 2019

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME010-043

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