What is recorded here

Flat cemetery in Curleyland AND Mill Land holds two tiny cremation pits seven metres apart on level ground. Burnt hazel charcoal dates the smaller deposit to 1192-938 BC, proving people died and were remembered there before written history. The flat earth still keeps that old fire, waiting for curiosity rather than pity.

Situated on a level landscape. Archaeological monitoring (13E0209) by Niall Roycroft of road works identified two spreads of burnt bone and charcoal that were 7m apart. See: https://excavations.ie/report/2013/Meath/0024209/ accessed on 04/04/2019. Complete excavation (14E0175) by Mark Moraghan recovered small amounts of cremated human bone in each pit (diam. 0.15m; D 0.08m: diam. 0.5-0.65m; D 0.04m). A sample of hazel charcoal from the smaller deposit produced a C14 date of 2880 +-2 BP (UBA 26996) which calibrates as 1192-938 BC. See: https://excavations.ie/report/2014/Meath/0023783/ accessed on 04/04/2019. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 April, 2019

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