County: Kildare Site name: LITTLECONNELL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KD023-110 Licence number: 04E1555
Author: Rory Sherlock, Sheila Lane and Associates
Site type: Burial
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 681776m, N 716158m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.189584, -6.776342
A truncated pottery vessel containing fragments of cremated bone was found during a programme of unlicensed monitoring of topsoil-stripping at the Wyeth Medica Ireland facility at Littleconnell, Newbridge, Co. Kildare. The feature was excavated under licence with the assistance of a conservator and appears to represent the remains of a Bronze Age cremation burial that was contained within a small upright pottery vessel. The vessel was initially removed from the site in a stabilised earthen block and later excavated in controlled laboratory conditions.
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