What is recorded here
An inverted vase food vessel and cremated bone were found under a small tumulus (WA013-050002-) near the village of Ballinamult before 1786 (Vallancey 1786, 42). (Waddell 1990, 144-5; Ó Ríordáin and Waddell 1993, 138)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008
Bronze Age urn burial; associated with early cremation practices in Ireland. Its find context provides insight into funerary customs and burial mounds of the period.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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