What is recorded here

In 2007, road works in Danesfort revealed a deep circular pit holding shattered urns and charcoal-rich soil but no bone. The absence of the dead body transforms the pit from a grave into a vessel for memory, suggesting the community kept the fire and clay while releasing the flesh elsewhere. Three different urns broke inside the same hole, implying a shared ritual rather than a single family claim. The road now carries strangers past the place where local hands once directed loss into darkness.

On a slight N-facing slope on an undulating plain. Excavated in 2007 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3538). A deep, flat-bottomed, straight-sided circular pit containing sherds of at least three different funerary urns. The primary fill comprised charcoal-rich soil and several sherds of a Vase Urn. The secondary fill was also charcoal-rich and constained a single decorated rim sherd of Vase Urn. No cremated bone was recovered. A number of post-holes were excavated to the S of the pit. (Devine 2010, 240-41, no. 902; Devine and Sygut 2009) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 25 November 2013

Pit-burial in Danesfort is a single inhumation burial, likely dating to the Early Christian or early medieval period. Its discovery provides insight into local burial practices and the impact of infrastructure development on archaeological sites.

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