What is recorded here

Excavations in Courtlough revealed a small oval pit holding the cremated remains of an adult and adolescent beside a broken Ribbed bowl. The absence of structural stones suggests the people trusted bare earth to keep their company rather than building a chamber for them. They may have believed fire and depth were enough to carry them somewhere the living could not follow.

Excavations by Mr Kilbride Jones revealed a pit-burial (Grave 2) just E of a cist (DU005-041----). The pit was roughly oval in plan (L 0.67m, Wth 0.43m). There was no evidence for structural stones. It contained a cremation of one adult and one adolescent and a fragmentary Ribbed bowl(Cahill & Sikora 2011,170). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 11 February 2013

Pit-burial in Courtlough is a prehistoric cremation burial, likely dating to the Bronze Age. Its significance lies in providing evidence of early funerary practices in the region, including the use of simple pit burials alongside stone cists.

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