What is recorded here

Urn burial in Liscahane, County Cork, Ireland dates to the Early Bronze Age and still holds fragments of an encrusted urn and amber pommel mount. Those fragments appeared in the construction trench of a later underground passage, suggesting the passage cut through an older burial and scattered what had been kept whole. The dead person may have worn the amber pommel on a knife, belt or garment, and the urn may have held ashes, bones or something the living wanted to preserve. Building the passage did not erase that person; it broke the burial open and carried parts of them into a new structure.

Discovered during the excavation of ringfort (8468) in 1984. O Donnabháin (forthcoming) notes 'fragments of an Early Bronze Age encrusted urn and amber pommel mount were found in the fill of the construction trench [of the Man-made underground passage (8912)] and presumably represents a burial that was disturbed during the building of the Man-made underground passage'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Urn burial in Liscahane is an Early Bronze Age burial, likely dating to the 13th–11th century BCE. Its significance lies in the presence of an encrusted urn and an amber pommel mount, indicating ritual deposition and possible high-status association.

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