Pit-burial in Rathgoggan South — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Marianne Gowen recorded a small oval pit in Rathgoggan South after pipeline builders opened the earth in 1986. Charcoal and cremated bone lay scattered through silty clay, marking a loss serious enough to keep but perhaps not large enough for a grand tomb. The dead person may have belonged to a household that measured worth in memory rather than monument, placing what remained inside the ground and waiting for it to return to the world.

Discovered in 1986 during construction of the Bruff-Mallow gas pipeline (Gowen 1988, 179). Oval pit (0.65m x 0.95m) filled with silty clay, abundant charcoal, and specks of cremated bone (pers. comm. M. Gowen). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Pit-burial in Rathgoggan South is a Bronze Age cremation burial, dating to approximately 2000–1500 BCE. Its significance lies in providing evidence of early funerary practices and cremation rituals in the region during the Bronze Age.

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