Pit-burial in Unknown Townland — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Test excavations near the Royal Hospital in County Dublin uncovered a Food Vessel sitting naked in a shallow pit, devoid of the usual stone chamber or earthen mound. The vessel measured barely sixty centimetres across, suggesting a hurried or humble farewell rather than a grand display. Perhaps a family buried their dead quickly during a time of danger, trusting the soil to keep the secret. The pit remains a small, sharp reminder that even in crowded lands, some departures happen in silence.

Test excavations on a development N of the Royal Hospital in 2002 uncovered a pit burial (Walsh 2004, 169). The Food Vesssel sat in an unprotected pit (L0.59m, Wth 0.5m). There was no evidence of a cist or mound (Walsh 2004, 169).

A pit burial, likely dating to the Early Christian or medieval period, based on the presence of a Food Vessel. Its significance lies in providing evidence of simple funerary practices in a presumably rural or peripheral context.

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