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Pit-burial in Collon

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The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). Urn now in National Museum (NMI reg. no. 1960:400) (JRSAI 1962, 151).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LH020-017

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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