What is recorded here
Culmore in County Antrim holds a prehistoric urn burial where human remains joined wood, stone or memory before written history. The small vessel may have carried a beloved person into soil still touched by seasonal rain and foot traffic. Its buried owner is unnamed, but the choice to preserve ash or bone inside a made container suggests love, fear or pride strong enough to shape death itself.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as URN BURIAL. Recorded period: PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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