What is recorded here

Glassamucky holds two dead men from the bronze age, one buried in a pit and one locked inside a stone cist. They lay together on a slope facing the sunrise, waiting for hands that had forgotten how to build. The quarry took their ground in 1978, but the dead kept their shape because stone and bone resist the hunger of men.

Situated on a N facing slope with extensive view to the E, N and W. A pit burial containing a cinerary urn inverted over a cremation (NMI 1978:342-345). In 1978 two burials were found during removal of topsoil from a quarry (Kelly 1987-8, 73), the second burial came from a cist (DU025-057001-). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 28 July 2018

Pit-burial in Glassamucky is a Bronze Age cremation burial, dating to approximately 2000–800 BCE. Its significance lies in the presence of a cinerary urn, indicating early funerary practices associated with the containment and veneration of cremated remains in the region.

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