What is recorded here

Fire and burial touched in a narrow oval pit at Mountbagnall, small enough to hide beneath a boot but deep enough to keep heat and bone together. The charcoal-stained soil suggests someone valued the dead enough to transform them before releasing them into the earth. Whether the flesh belonged to a child, an elder, or a traveller remains unknown, yet the act itself was deliberate: to remember through transformation rather than forget through loss.

Discovered during archaeological trial test trenching in 2001 (Excavation Licence 01E0150). It took the form of an oval shaped pit (max. diam. 0.45m; D 0.1m) which was filled with heavily stained charcoal soil and flecks of cremated bone. Bone analysis required to check if bone is human. (O' Carroll 2003, 268) Reference: O'Carroll, F. 2003 Mountbagnall. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 268, (no. 873). Bray. Wordwell. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 8 March 2012

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