What is recorded here
Uncisted urn burial in Ballytresna, County Antrim, holds Bronze Age and prehistoric remains without a visible mound. People may have set ceramic vessels into ordinary soil, trusting the earth to keep what ceremony had released. The absence of a ridge or marker does not diminish the act; it suggests restraint, memory and surrender rather than display.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as UNCISTED URN BURIAL. 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 uncisterned urn burial; represents a common funerary practice in prehistoric Northern Ireland. Its significance lies in contributing to the understanding of burial customs and social structures during the Bronze Age.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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