What is recorded here
Three urn burials and a possible cist mark a lost Bronze Age ritual in Rocktown, County Derry. The exact ground has vanished from modern memory, leaving only a map point and a question mark behind the cist. Whatever bodies or bones once filled those vessels, the living hand that placed them is gone, and the town has forgotten the name of the dead.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as THREE URN BURIALS & ?CIST (O.S. memoir site, unlocated). Recorded period: BRONZE AGE; PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Bronze Age urn burials and a possible cist, dating to the prehistoric period. These burials represent early funerary practices associated with cremation rites in the region.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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