Pit-burial in Corradoon, County Waterford

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What is recorded here

An encrusted urn (Kavanagh 1973, 565) was found inverted in a pit over the cremated remains of a child, with fragments of a possible bowl food vessel. It was found in ploughing during 1967. (Lucas, 1971, JRSAI, 220-22; Waddell 1990, 145) Lucas, A. T. (1971) National Museum of Ireland: archaeological acquisitions in 1968. JRSAI 102, 181-239. Waddell, J. (1990) The Bronze Age burials of Ieland. Galway University Press.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA013-042

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