What is recorded here

Pit-burial in Monamintra is a pit-burial in Monamintra, County Waterford, Ireland. The stone-lined pit holds a collared urn and measures 0.55 metres across its top with a depth of about 0.5 metres. It lies at the east edge of a ditch-barrow in a low col where hills rise to about 570 metres north-northwest and about 630 metres east. Two other pit burials sit immediately adjacent to this one.

Situated at the E edge of ditch-barrow (WA018-084----), which is in a low col with the summits of hills rising c. 570m to the NNW and c. 630m to the E. A pit-burial was discovered in a test excavation (07E0347) by O. Scully (2007d) and consists of a Collared Urn in a stone-lined pit (diam. of top 0.55m; D c. 0.5m). Two pit burials (WA018-084002- and WA018-084003-) are immediately adjacent. Scully, O. (2007d) R708 Airport road Realignment, Phase 3, Co. Waterford. Report on archaeological test excavations in advance of construction at three location along the route of the Airport Road Realignment. Licence: 07E0347. Unpublished report. DEHLG. Author. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 February 2011

A Neolithic pit-burial; associated with a ditch-barrow and likely dates to the early to middle Neolithic period (c. 4000–3000 BCE). Its significance lies in providing evidence of burial practices and settlement patterns in a landscape characterized by prominent topographic features.

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