Pit-burial in Smarmore, County Louth

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What is recorded here

Discovered during ploughing in June 1949 and subsequently excavated by A.T. Lucas. A rock-cut pit (diam. at top 0.6m; diam. at base 0.3m; D 0.5m) covered by a flat rectangular stone. The pit contained an inverted Cordoned Urn over a cremated deposit, that of an adult, possibly male. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, vol. 1, 287-290; Kavanagh 1976, 370, no. 40).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LH020-001

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