What is recorded here
This flat cemetery was excavated (Licence no. 03E0067) in advance of development. It comprised twenty-three pits containing cremated bone and/or fragments of pottery vessels, eight substantially intact. All were coarse ware vessels of Late Bronze Age date (Carroll et al. 2008, 22).
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU005-131
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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- Offdaw, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- GsmithEIDW at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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