What is recorded here

Drumhaggart Flat Cemetery in County Donegal holds six ancient cists where cremated remains still wait beside a small biconical vessel. That vessel belongs to the young adult female whose bones shared the container, while a piece of unburnt antler survived the fire. The flat cemetery has no grand monument, yet it preserves a rare domestic object inside death itself.

In 1950 'six cists containing cremated remains were found. One of the cists also contained an undecorated biconical miniature vessel (1956:428). The site was not investigated by NMI staff and the only report extant is that written by Garda B. McTernan. Ó Donnabháin and Brindley (1989-90, 19-20) reported that the bones associated with the miniature vesselwere those of a young adult female. A piece of unburnt antler was also found. The human remains have not been dated. Brindley (2007, 294) suggests that biconical miniature vessels date from c.1900-1800 BC.' (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol. 1, 114). (Waddell 1970, 113; Lacy et al. 1983, 65; Ó Donnabháin and Brindley 1989-90; Brindley 2007). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 18 February 2013

Early Bronze Age flat cemetery; its significance lies in the presence of cremation burials and a miniature vessel, indicating funerary practices and material culture of the period.

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