What is recorded here

Three small cremation pits sit within two and a half metres on flat Tinnacross ground, two with possible marker-posts beside them. They belonged to a time when fire, not burial, finished the body, and the people returned often enough to keep the marks visible. A road nearly erased them before excavation, but the pits still hold their shape: small, deliberate, repeated.

Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Tinnacross 2 (Hardy et al. 2010, 69-70). It is situated on a level landscape with a small NE-SW stream c. 150m to the NW. It was completely excavated (E4229) by M. McNamara when three cremation pits, two with possible marker-posts, were recorded within 1.5-2.5m of each other. The pits (dims 0.65m x 0.65m; D 0.1m: 0.82m x 0.75m; D 0.15m: 0.4m x 0.25m; DS 0.12m) contained burnt bone and flecks of charcoal. The second and third burials were cut by oval pits (dims 0.75m x 0.82m; D 0.15m: 0.9m x 0.75m; D 0.2m) and a third pit (dims 1.15m x 0.65m; D 0.4m) was c. 5m to the NW. Two of the cremation pits have post-holes adjacent that might have been used to mark the graves. The charcoal spread (WX020-078----) is c. 90m to the E. (Hardy 2012; McNamara 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 November, 2013

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