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Pit-burial in Danesfort

Pit-burial
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On a slight N-facing slope on an undulating plain. Excavated in 2007 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3538). A deep, flat-bottomed, straight-sided circular pit containing sherds of at least three different funerary urns. The primary fill comprised charcoal-rich soil and several sherds of a Vase Urn. The secondary fill was also charcoal-rich and constained a single decorated rim sherd of Vase Urn. No cremated bone was recovered. A number of post-holes were excavated to the S of the pit. (Devine 2010, 240-41, no. 902; Devine and Sygut 2009) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 25 November 2013

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