Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cremation pit
Balgatheran, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balgatheran
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75052, -6.41120
- SMR number
- LH021-076----
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 00E0943). Excavation revealed fragments of burnt bone (max. L 180mm) contained within a pit (diam. c. 0.6m). No artefacts were found with this cremation. (Campbell 2001, 4; Campbell 2002, 212-3)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 25 July 2012
References
Campbell, K. 2002 Balgatheran 2. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 212-3 (No. 639). Bray. Wordwell.
Campbell, K. 2001 Preliminary report: archaeological excavation Northern Motorway (Gormanstown to Monasterboice) Balgatheran 2, Co. Louth. Unpublished archaeological report.
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