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THREE CREMATION BURIALS in Crossgare

THREE CREMATION BURIALS

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Three cremation burials in Crossgare, County Derry, belong to the prehistoric and Bronze Age periods when people first turned flesh to ash and kept the bones. The official record marks the exact centre of that forgotten ceremony, preserving a moment when death stopped being a hidden event and became a shared act of memory.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as THREE CREMATION 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 cremation burials; significant for providing insights into prehistoric funerary practices in the region.

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