What is recorded here

Shantallow holds an urn burial from the Bronze Age, when people still buried what they loved instead of forgetting it. The small vessel may have carried bones, ash or a last breath from a life no longer named. In that quiet ground, love and loss became one act, and the earth kept the shape of human tenderness long after the hands that made it disappeared.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as URN BURIAL. Recorded period: PREHISTORIC; BRONZE AGE. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Bronze Age urn burial; typically associated with cremation practices in the British Isles. Such burials are significant for understanding prehistoric funerary rites and social organisation.

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