What is recorded here

Seven small pits, no wider than a man’s outstretched arms, hold charcoal flecks and cremated bone on a slight east-facing slope in Rathgaroge. They cluster within four metres, waiting beneath soil that roads and memory have repeatedly crossed. The dead did not need grandeur; they needed a margin large enough for seven vessels and a flame hot enough to turn bone to dust.

Located on a slight E-facing slope. Centre-line testing (E4067) in advance of the N25 New Ross by-pass identified a few discrete features that was set aside for resolution as Rathgaroge 2 (Doyle et al 2010, 42-3). When it was fully excavated (E004131) seven pits (dims 0.37-0.43m; D 4cm to 0.55-0.65m; D 0.13m), each with flecks of charcoal and two with visible cremated bone, were recorded in a concentrated area (dims 4m NE-SW; 2m NW-SE). (Hackett 2010, 7-8; Hackett 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 25 September, 2013

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