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Cremated remains

Cahermackirilla, County Clare, Ireland

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Townland
Cahermackirilla
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.01986, -9.11208
SMR number
CL009-084031-

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The National Monuments Service's description

During the first season of a research excavation on a complex of prehistoric monuments, a cremated burial was uncovered on the N side of a cairn (CL009-084010-). It was found between two ‘layers’ of the cairn material. One complete blue glass bead and three fragments of other blue glass beads were found, as well as a clear piece of quartz (Grant 2004, 29, no. 112). Subsequent analysis identified the remains as those of an adult human (ibid., 2006, 553, AD9). (ibid., 1995-31-3)

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 3 May 2022

References

Grant, C. 2004 Cahermackirilla. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 29, no. 112. Bray. Wordwell.

Grant, C. 2006 Fanygalvan/Cahermackirilla. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 553. Bray. Wordwell.

Grant, C. 1995. Mapping a Bronze Age Burren landscape. Archaeology Ireland 9, no. 1, 31-3.

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