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What is recorded here

Grass and footpaths hide a Bronze Age chamber where a hanging bowl still hangs in memory. People built sods, gravel and cairn stones around one narrow cist, then kept returning to place the dead and their food vessels inside the growing mound. The site has given up its shape to Walkinstown Park, but the care taken to bury someone there has not disappeared.

Excavated in 1938 by Kilbride Jones (1939, 190-220). The site comprised a circular mound (diam.21.5m, H 1.22m). It had a composite make-up comprising a primary mound of decayed sods overlain by a mound of gravel and sand of Mid-Late Bronze age. The primary mound covered a stone-setting and an oval cairn which covered a central cist (L1.30m, Wth 1.20m, H 0.37m) orientated N-S containg a hanging bowl and extended burial. Secondary burials were inserted into the mound. These were cremations accompanied by a Food Vessel. At a later stage in the early Late Bronze Age a mantling mund had been placed over the primary mound obtained from a surrounding ditch. A pit inserted into this contained two burials, orientated East to West. In Walkinstown Park. There are no visible surface remains.

Tumulus; likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its composite construction reflects evolving funerary practices of the period.

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