Bronze Age Cemetery and Early Medieval Enclosure (Carrigaline)

This was a multi-period site containing a Bronze Age flat cemetery with 13 cremations (including one urn cremation and two stone cists) and a suspected early medieval double-ditched (bi-vallate) enclosure. The urn cremation was block-lifted by a conservator, x-rayed off site and excavated in a lab. A miniature Pygmy Cup was found in several pieces and could be refitted by the specialist (see image – Rubicon). Sites like this remind us that people in prehistory cared for their deceased just as we do, and went to great lenghts to bury them appropriately according to their traditions.