Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Urn burial
Balleally West,balleally East, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balleally West,balleally East
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- DU008-033----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Mechanical excavation of a sandpit in 1940 uncovered two cinerary urns (NMI 1940:81a). The burial type is not known. They are probably food vessel urns (Mount 1989, 270-280). Both vessels are missing their bases which suggests that they were inverted when they were damaged by the mechanical excavator (Waddell 1990, 80). Not precisely located.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Mount, C. 1989 Early Bronze Age burials in southern Leinster. Unpublished MA thesis. University College, Dublin.
Waddell, J. 1990 The Bronze Age burials of Ireland. Galway University Press.
NMI file - Topographical files of the National Museum of Ireland. Unpublished