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URN BURIALS in Lisachrin

URN BURIALS

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Lisachrin in County Derry held urn burials from the Bronze Age, when people were dying and being remembered before written history existed. The site still belongs to that distant human world, where fire, clay and loss were common enough to shape a place. Whatever names were spoken there have vanished, but the urns remained because someone believed the dead still deserved a container.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as URN BURIALS. Recorded period: BRONZE AGE; PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Bronze Age urn burials; prehistoric funerary remains. Represent a common burial practice in the British Isles during the Bronze Age, reflecting local mortuary customs and social structures.

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