Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.
Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.
Add your photo and local directionsShare what you foundWhat is recorded here
In a low-lying field under tillage. A burial mound (Diam. 25m, H 2m) containing a number of partially stone-lined graves was found here in 1958 (NMI 1958:37A and B). Excavations revealed three graves, two of which were partially stone-protected. Grave 1 cist was rectangular in outline with a long axis running E-W (L 1.4m, wth 0.4m, H 0.2m) and contained the disarticulated remains of two adults with a calibrated date of 418-605 AD. Grave 2 was a simple pit aligned E-W which contained an extended inhumation which dated to 692-962 AD. Grave 3 was a partially slab-lined grave which contained two extended inhumation burials aligned W-E (Cahill & Sikora 2011, 21-28). Not visible at ground level (Waddell 1990, 80).In a low-lying field under tillage. A burial mound containing a long cist was found here in 1958 (NMI 1958:37A and B). Not visible at ground level (Waddell 1990, 80).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 13 February 2013
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.