What is recorded here

Flat cemetery in Darcystown held twenty-three pits of cremated bone and coarse pottery, eight vessels still whole when development threatened them. The Late Bronze Age dead had trusted clay to carry their remains across centuries, waiting patiently beneath soil that now yields to human urgency. Their fire-scarred jars resist forgetting, preserving a moment when breath left the body and memory entered earth.

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). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 2 February 2015

A Neolithic flat inhumation cemetery; dates to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Its significance lies in providing insights into early funerary practices, including cremation and the use of pottery vessels in burial rites.

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