What is recorded here

Inside a Neolithic house in County Meath, someone cut a pit through the floor and lowered a tiny vase urn barely twenty-two centimetres tall. The small size suggests a child, an infant or a deliberately diminished ancestor rather than a grown adult. That uncertainty is not a gap, but the shape of the ceremony: a household making one life visible in its own dimensions.

A pit burial containing an unusually small vase urn (H c. 0.22m) was inserted in the floor of the Neolithic house (ME005-105----). (Halpin and Gowen 1991, 38; Gowen 1992, 27) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 September 2018

Neolithic pit-burial, dating to c. 4000–2500 BCE, associated with domestic context. Its significance lies in the rare inclusion of a small vase urn within a house floor, reflecting early funerary practices linked to domestic life.

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