County: Derry Site name: KILLEAGUE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: A.E.P. Collins, Dept. of the Environment
Site type: Burial
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 683434m, N 924485m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.060834, -6.693974
A cordoned urn had been inverted over a large quantity of cremated bone in the bottom of a pit-grave, oval in plan and 70cm deep. No other artifacts were associated. The urn was intact apart from damage to the base by the dragging aside of a covering slab by a potato planting machine. Decoration was confined internally to two-ply twisted cord impressions on the bevelled rim and externally to the zone between the rim and the first cordon below it. The motif is a band of herring-bone pattern flanked above and below by paired zonal lines of continuous cord impressions.
