What is recorded here

Quarrying bit through a high gravel ridge in Castlerichard and exposed a pit where a collared urn lay mouth down over cremated bones. O'Kelly and O'Connell examined the disturbance in 1968 before the site disappeared under extraction. The bones probably belonged to a young adolescent, sent into the earth with a vessel that had no wall to hold it, only gravel and forgetfulness.

On high gravel ridge; site of burial now quarried away. Tripartite collared urn placed mouth down over cremated human bones in unrevetted pit; backfilled with gravelly soil. Bones probably those of young adolescent. Investigated after disturbance by quarrying by O'Kelly and O'Connell (1968, 50). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Pit-burial in Castlerichard is a Bronze Age cremation burial, dating to approximately 2000–800 BCE. Its significance lies in the presence of a tripartite collared urn, a distinctive funerary vessel type associated with the early to middle Bronze Age in Ireland.

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