What is recorded here

Four people slept in stone boxes inside a hillock that never stopped moving. The sea threw sand over them, buried the boxes, then revealed them again. Someone found a decorated pot beside the dead, but the pot vanished. The hillock keeps taking back what it gives.

A small sand-covered hillock in a level area E of Portbane Strand. It is said that not less than 4 inhumations in cists were uncovered in this hillock. At least one of them was a small cist. A decorated pot was also found but does not survive (local information). The hillock is in an area subject to considerable sand-shifting. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Lederg Burial Mound, Crummie's Bay is a Bronze Age burial mound, likely containing multiple cist burials. Its significance lies in the presence of a decorated pot, suggesting funerary practices and cultural artifacts associated with early metalworking communities in the region.

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