Cremation pit in Bay — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Three small pits in County Dublin held the remains of older adolescents or adults during the Late Bronze Age. One pit contained a charred false oat-grass tuber, perhaps kindling for the pyre, while another kept bone inside a coarse pottery vessel similar to domestic ware. The cluster emerged before road works, revealing that fiery departure and everyday clay shared the same soil.

Excavated (Licence no. E3917) in advance of the construction of the Tyrrelstown to N2 Link Road, this monument consisted of a cluster of three cremation pits. Pit 1 (0.47m x 0.40m) contained a mix of cremated human bone, charcoal and fragments of burnt clay. While the weight of cremated bone recovered was a fraction of a cremated individual analysis revealed the burial to be an older adolescent or perhaps an adult (O’Hara R. 2008, 2). Pit 2 (0.27m x 0.25m) contained a mix of cremated human bone, charcoal and fragments of burnt clay. While the weight of cremated bone recovered was a fraction of a cremated individual analysis revealed the burial to be an older adolescent or, perhaps, an adult. A charred false oat-grass tuber was identified and may have been used as kindling for the funeral pyre (O’Hara R. 2008, 2). Pit 3 (0.5m x 0.4m) was located immediately adjacent to Pit 2 and contained cremation deposit placed within a coarse pottery vessel. The burial was radiocarbon dated to the Late Bronze Age (1010-840 cal. BC). The vessel which survived to a height of 12cm is a Late Bronze age vessel similar to domestic vessels of the same date (O’Hara R. 2008, 3). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 February 2015

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