Pit-burial

The National Monuments Service's description

In close proximity to a flat cemetery (DG039-012----) which was uncovered in the 1950s (Lacy et al. 1983, 65). In 1998 local archaeological field–walkers identified a pit burial in a quarry face from which they gathered quantities of bones and some pottery. The area was investigated the following year by Halpin on behalf of the National Museum of Ireland. He was unable to precisely locate the monument but suggested that a large slab in the vicinity of the location indicated may have covered a pit burial. Some fragments of cremated bone were discovered in the spoil. The shreds of pottery collected in 1998 are the fragmentary remains of a bipartite bowl (1999:382). (McNaught 1999; Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol. 1, 114-115)

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 18 February 2013

References

McNaught, B. 1999 The Drumhaggart Early Bronze Age pit burial. Donegal Annual, No. 51, 36-40.

Lacy, B. with Cody, E., Cotter, C., Cuppage, J., Dunne, N., Hurley, V., O'Rahilly, C., Walsh, P. and Ó Nualláin, S. 1983 Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century A.D. Lifford. Donegal County Council.

Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) 2011 Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland.