What is recorded here

Flat cemetery in Baysrath (kells By.) held nine shallow pits for adult and child cremations beside an Iron Age palisaded enclosure. People buried their dead there around 1260 to 1048 Cal BC, then lived near the same ground for generations. The road works revealed what memory had forgotten: a small cluster of losses, repeated across centuries in one flat place.

Excavated in 2006-7 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Road Improvement Scheme. Excavation licence no. 2517, AR 053, Area B. One of a cluster of monuments found in close proximity to each other in an area c. 1.8ha with dates ranging from the Late Neolithic to the early medieval period. 9 individual subcircular shallow pits (av. D 0.13m; av. L 0.4m; av. Wth 0.4m), 4 inside and 4 outside an Iron Age palisaded enclosure (KK031-076----) and occupying an area of 10m x 12m but without any obvious pattern. The pits were set into subsoil directly beneath topsoil and contained the remains of adult and child cremations and charcoal. The cemetery was radiocarbon dated to 1260, 1056 Cal BC (UB 10680) and 1312, 1048 Cal BC (UB 10682). (Channing 2009, 255-6, no. 1003; 2010a, 234, no. 881; 2010b) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 25 September 2013

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