Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Gloves Middle, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gloves Middle
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29622, -8.69370
- SMR number
- GA084-077----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A rectangular slab-built cist (L 0.5m; Wth 0.4m), aligned N-S, was discovered in 1934 when sand was being removed from a sand pit. It contained the cremated bones of an adult, many fragments of pottery, a flint knife and two or three flint scrapers (Waddell 1975, 16; 1990, 93). The cist and its contents were subsequently transferred to the college museum in University College Galway. However, their present location is unknown.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 November 2019
References
Waddell, J. 1975 The Bronze Age burials of County Galway. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 34, 5-20.
Waddell, J. 1990 The Bronze Age burials of Ireland. Galway University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Quarry1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.