What is recorded here

Fire stripped the flesh and broke the bone before the ashes joined the soil of Townleyhall. They scattered across the settlement surface beside sherds of a decorated Neolithic bowl, denying the dead a separate grave while giving them a share in the living place. The bowl may have held food, drink or memory, yet its fragments now mark a transformation rather than a meal. To bury someone there was not to hide them from the world but to distribute them through it.

Cremation found scattered on the surface of the settlement (LH024-007001-) in association with sherds of a decorated Neolithic bowl. (Liversage 1960, 54) Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 24 August 2012

A Neolithic cremation burial, dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE, associated with early farming communities in the region. Its significance lies in its connection to the spread of agricultural practices and ceremonial burial traditions in Ireland.

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