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Pit-burial in Grange (ballintober South By.)

Pit-burial

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Pit-burial in Grange (ballintober South By.) is a pit-burial in Grange (ballintober South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. Grave 10 holds a Vase Urn inverted over a stone with a large cremation deposit and a bronze dagger having a bone pommel. The burial was inserted at the southeast of mound RO028-204001-.
Grave 10 is a pit burial containing a Vase Urn inverted over a stone and containing a large cremation deposit including a bronze dagger with its bone pommel. It was inserted in the mound (RO028-204001-) at SE. (Ó Ríordáin 1997, 50) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Bronze Age pit burial, 11th–8th century BCE. Significant as a rare example of a cremation burial with a bronze dagger, indicating high-status deposition and metalworking practices in the later Bronze Age.

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