County: Kildare Site name: TIMOLIN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: R. O Floinn, NMI
Site type: Cist
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 679633m, N 693735m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.988428, -6.813949
Deep ploughing dislodged a large capstone measuring 1.60m x 1.15m revealing a short rectangular cist. The sides consisted of single slabs, the cist measuring 0.75m x 0.35m internally with its long axis running NW/SE. The floor of the cist was paved. It contained the disarticulated, unburnt remains of a single adult male. Some of the long bones were stacked towards one side of the cist, their long axes parallel to that of the cist. The burial was accompanied by two Food Vessels, one of Bowl type placed mouth upwards in one corner, the other—of Vase type—was disturbed in antiquity and consisted of sherds of the rim.
The capstone of a second cist lay some 10m to the east. This was excavated in 1982 (see No. 124).
