Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Flat cemetery
Misterin, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Misterin
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WX030-068----
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The National Monuments Service's description
In December 1888 a workman disturbed a small cist in Misterin that contained grey ashes and two pygmy cups (Ffrench 1889-90) that are now in the National Museum of Ireland (Kavanagh 1977, 89-90). At the time it was recalled that a similar cist had been discovered in the same field c. 50 years previously. Fragments of an Enlarged Food Vessel Urn were found in a cist in 1931 in the same field according to newspaper reports (Irish Independent, 06/06/1931 and 08/06/1931; Irish Times, 08/06/1931), and the fragments are now in the National Museum of Ireland. The find spots are unknown now (Waddell 1990, 157), but Ffrench states that the 1888 discovery was close to a rectangular earthwork, probably the moated site at Tomgarrow (WX030-064----). If they were located close to each other they could constitute a flat cemetery.
Comiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 15 August, 2012
References
Ffrench, Rev. J.F.M. 1889-90 Cinerary urns discovered at Adamstown, Co. Wexford. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 59, 19-20.
Kavanagh, R.M. 1977 Pygmy cups in Ireland. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 107, 61-95.
Waddell, J. 1990 The Bronze Age burials of Ireland. Galway University Press.