What is recorded here
Discovered prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 98E0125 (Site F)). Excavation revealed a circular spread of grey charcoal rich soil (diam. 0.9m), from which fragments of cremated human bone and cattle bone were recovered. (Breen 2000, 153)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 31 May 2012
Cremation burial; date uncertain but likely Bronze Age. The presence of both human and cattle remains suggests ritual or funerary practices associated with early agrarian communities.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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