Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Shevry, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shevry
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- SMR number
- TN039-033----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Unlocated cist burial within townland. Reference to Cist burial in NMI Topopgraphical Files from 1959, During sand quarrying operations the face of the pit collpased exposing a Bronze Age burial and was located approx. 2ft below the surface of the ground. In the pit were found cremated human remains, sherds of a cinerary urn and pieces of metal foil. The decorated urn (H 27.8cm; Ext. rim 29.5cm; base Diam. 12.5cm; wall T 1.7cm) has a short, straight neck and a bucket-shaped body. The rim is decorated with a number of shallow finger-tip impressions, the body of then urn is decorated a zig-zag pattern with rounded points while the lower part of the urn has criss-cross lines (Lucas 1961, JRSAI 91, 86-88). The cremated bone represented one adult and one child (Waddell 1990, 135).
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008