Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cremated remains
Gransha, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gransha
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 55.12567, -7.44483
- SMR number
- DG029-063----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Monitoring of the construction of a residential development at Gransha, Buncrana (April 2007) BY Maurice F. Hurley under licence No. 07E0861, revealed a spread of charcoal-rich material containing six sherds of pottery that are likely to be of Early Bronze Age date, together with six fragments of cremated bone and three flakes of quartz (not worked). The apparent extent of the spread measured 4.5m east–west by 8.5m. Preliminary examination of the pottery suggests the sherds were part of a bowl food vessel. Excavation (September 2007) of the spread revealed the heavily truncated and disturbed remains of an Early Bronze Age cremation burial. The remains consisted of a shallow spread of charcoal-rich grey clay lying directly on the natural boulder clay. No further finds of archaeological significance were uncovered during the excavation of the site (Bennett 2010, 78-9).
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision : 18 November 2011
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