What is recorded here

Moyne House in County Laois kept an urn burial hidden in its grounds until 1952. The broken vessel held skull fragments, ribs and long bones, suggesting a person important enough to be set apart yet ordinary enough to be forgotten. The discovery turned a private estate into a temporary archive for human loss.

A quantity of human bones including fragments of a skull, parts of ribs and long bones, and sherds of an encrusted urn were discovered in 1952 in the grounds of Moyne House (PRIA 1973, 551). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Urn burial in Moyne is a funerary deposit of the Bronze Age, characterized by cremated human remains and an encrusted urn. Its significance lies in providing evidence of cremation practices and pottery styles associated with early funerary rituals in the region.

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