What is recorded here

Athgarrett holds a Late Bronze Age burial where a bucket-shaped pot stood upright in a narrow pit, perhaps sealed by a covering stone. The vessel contained only tiny fragments of burnt bone, so little that its true purpose still hesitates between memory and marker. It emerged in 1983 when pipeline work cut through undulating pasture, bringing an old act of remembrance back into the light.

In undulating pasture. Discovered in 1983 during topsoil-stripping for the construction of the Cork-Dublin natural gas pipeline. Most of a flat-based, bucket-shaped pot containing ‘tiny fragments of burnt bone’ was found standing upright in a pit of only very slightly larger volume and shape, which may originally have been sealed by a covering stone. While the paucity of the burnt bone led the excavator to caution against interpreting it as a cinerary urn, the form of the vessel suggests a Late Bronze Age date. (Cleary et al. 1987, 43). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 23 July 2012

A Neolithic burial; dates to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Its significance lies in its association with early funerary practices and the use of pottery for containing human remains in Ireland.

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