What is recorded here

Grange in Coolock held a tiny pit burial where cremated bone rested above angular stones beneath silty clay. Two small pottery fragments suggest the act belongs to a deep human age, though the exact spot has vanished from modern knowledge. The chamber measured no more than fifty-five centimetres across, small enough to hide inside an ordinary field, yet large enough to contain a whole life reduced to ash and memory.

Pre-development testing in 2004 revealed a sub-circular feature (Wth 0.55m, L 0.16m, D 0.4m). This contained a basal fill of angular and rounded stones overlaid by cremated bone with a capping of silty clay. Two small fragments of possible prehistoric pottery were found in association (Elder, 2007, 93).The exact location of this monument is unknown. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Pit-burial in Grange is a funerary pit dating to the Bronze Age, likely used for cremation burial. Its significance lies in providing evidence of early burial practices and funerary rites in the region.

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