What is recorded here
Pre-development testing in 2003 revealed a circular deposit of charcoal and fragments of bone. When excavated the pre-cremated human remains were lying on the base of an upright ceramic vessel of probable Bronze age date (Diam. 0.3m , D 0.11m) (Wiggins, K.2006, 106).
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU005-068
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- What survives
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Jonjobaker, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Offdaw, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- GsmithEIDW at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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