What is recorded here

Megalithic monuments is a court tomb in Primrosegrange, County Sligo, Ireland. Swedish Archaeological Excavations at Carrowmore uncovered the site between 1996 and 1998, revealing an intact deposition layer dated around 4000 BC. The chamber contained large quantities of unburned human bones, stone and bone artefacts, and extraordinary chert pieces including leaf-shaped or pointed arrow-heads.

This tomb was excavated between 1996 and 1998 as part of the Swedish Archaeological Excavations campaign at Carrowmore. The excavations have shown that 'that the tomb was in use at the same time as the Carrowmore cemetery. An intact deposition layer inside the chamber, excavated during 1997, has produced a date of around 4000 BC . . .' The tomb has produced large quantities of unburned human bones, as well as stone and bone artefacts. All the burials found in tomb were inhumations. The finds included extraordinary pieces of chert artefacts, mainly leaf-shaped or pointed arrow-heads. (Burenhult 1998) See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 10 October 2013

Megalithic passage tomb; Neolithic period (circa 3500–2500 BCE). It is significant as part of the Carrowmore megalithic cemetery complex, one of the earliest and most important Neolithic burial sites in Ireland.

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