What is recorded here

Urns buried people or things they loved. In Newtown, a gravel dig broke one in 1941. John Hunt gathered the pieces, and the restored urn still stands in Limerick City Museum. The dead place has become a visible container, carrying what was lost into a room where people can still face it.

According to Kananagh (1973, 553) discovered in 1941 'during gravel operations ... when found it was complete, inverted probably over a cremation. However, the vessel was broken by the worker ... information supplied by Mr. John Hunt who recovered the broken vessel.' The restored urn in now in Limerick City Museum (see http://www.huntmuseum.com/collection/collection-items/hca-610.aspx). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 25 November 2013

Urn burial; likely dates to the Bronze Age. It is significant as a rare surviving example of cremation burial practice in the region.

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