What is recorded here
Killygore in County Antrim held urn burials from the Bronze Age, when people placed their dead inside clay rather than bare earth. The vessels turned loss into craft, shaping heat and pressure into containers for what remained of a life. That much is clear. What is missing is the voice that spoke over the urn, the hand that buried it, and the name they gave the person inside.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as URN BURIALS. Recorded period: PREHISTORIC; BRONZE AGE. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Bronze Age urn burials; typically associated with the deposition of cremated remains in pottery urns. These burials are significant for understanding funerary practices and social structures of prehistoric communities in the region.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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