What is recorded here

A small stone cist in Aghnaskeagh held fragments of human bone beneath a thin layer of cairn material, one of six short burial boxes set beside a larger megalith during the Bronze Age. Later smelting disturbed the place, mixing fire and death in the same soil. Evans uncovered it, but the dead remained nameless, their bodies broken and scattered before anyone could ask who they were or why they were set so close together.

One of six short cists (see also LH004-032002-, LH004-032004-, LH004-032005-, LH004-032006- and LH004-032008-) aligned NW-SE, found during excavations by E. E. Evans in Cairn A at Aghnaskeagh (see also LH004-032---- and LH004-032001-). These secondary burials, dating to the Bronze Age, were W and SW of the megalith. This cist (L 1m, Wth 0.76m, D 0.56m) was covered by 0.27m of cairn material, and contained a mixture of bone fragments and disturbed material from the later smelting activity. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 11 November 2011

A Neolithic cist tomb, dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE, associated with a passage tomb complex; significant as part of a ritual landscape linked to early farming communities in the Boyne Valley.

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