Pit-burial in Stag Park — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Stag Park holds a tiny circular pit where burnt bone once lay among almost one hundred other holes. The road builders opened that ground beside Mitchelstown, exposing a shallow dimple no larger than a bread loaf. The nearby empty pits suggest a crowded place of marking, loss or ceremony, though the small size denies grandeur.

Archaeological excavation during the construction of the N8 Mitchelstown relief road uncovered a roughly circular, shallow pit (0.36m x 0.26m; D 0.15m), with a concave profile, which contained pieces of burnt bone (Sutton 2006e, 52; Sutton 2007d, 69-70). The pit occurs in a concentration of almost 100 pits, post-holes and stake-holes (CO019-172----). Two similar pits (CO019-175----; CO19-176---), but without burial evidence, were located 1.2m to the ENE and 8.6m to the SE, respectively. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

A Neolithic pit-burial; the presence of burnt bone suggests a funerary context, indicating early ritual practices associated with human remains in the region.

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