Cremation pit in Derrybane, County Tipperary

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What is recorded here

11 pits in a cluster of which 9 appear to be for cremation or cooking - probably Bronze Age. Lots of cremated bone. One saucer shaped pit appears to have stakes in it as if was a charcoal kiln. No pottery or other significant finds. Around 20 cremations in small, unlined pits. Each one is clearly visible with a dark, charcoal rich fill and occasional burnt bone. No great quantities of burnt bone have been found. One pit contains the remains of a complete pot (top truncated by ploughing). Occasional large, sunken hearth-ovens. Many blobs of whitish silts proved to be natural upwelling of water that had leeched the natural (silty-sand) geological drift.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TN021-106

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