County: Wicklow Site name: GLASNAMULLEN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: R. O Floinn
Site type: Flat cemetery
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 721924m, N 710231m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.128662, -6.178118
The pit burials were exposed in a sand and gravel section face in a natural hillock overlooking the Vartry river. One of the burials was badly disturbed, all that remained were some rim sherds of a Cordoned Urn and some charcoal flecks and cremated bone. Enough remained to show that the Urn was originally inverted over the cremated bone. The second burial was located at a depth of 0.70m and 0.50m north of the first burial. It consisted of an inverted Collared Urn containing the remains of one adult. The Urn was protected by a polygonal slab.
