What is recorded here

Kilcaltan, County Derry, Ireland, in the BRONZE AGE and PREHISTORIC times. An urn burial, unlocated, marks a life ended and remembered. The clay held ashes, not a body, yet the choice of a separate vessel suggests the dead were still believed to exist somewhere beyond the grave.

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

Bronze Age urn burial; part of a widespread prehistoric funerary tradition in Britain and Ireland. Such burials are significant for understanding ritual practices and social organisation of early communities.

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