What is recorded here

Melted urns and scattered bone fragments mark a Bronze Age funeral ground in Livery Upper, County Antrim. The distinction between burial and abandonment has never been recorded. People may have gathered there to release the dead into rain and soil rather than preserve a body for memory.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as URN BURIALS. 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 burials; associated with cremation practices common in the British Isles during the second millennium BCE. These burials provide insight into prehistoric funerary rituals and social organisation in the region.

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