Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cremation pit
Darcystown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Darcystown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.58408, -6.18595
- SMR number
- DU005-135001-
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
One of two cremation pits excavated (Licence no. 03E0067) in advance of development. Irregular in plan the pit (0.4m diam.) contained a very small quantity of cremated bone and fourteen sherds of prehistoric pottery of middle or late Bronze Age date (Carroll et al. 2008, 38).
Compiled by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 2 February 2015
References
Carroll, J. Ryan, F. and Wiggins, K. 2008 Archaeological excavations at Glebe South and Darcystown, Balrothery, Co. Dublin. Balrothery Excavations Volume 2. Environmental Publications. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.