County: Donegal Site name: Gransha
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0861
Author: Maurice F. Hurley, 6 Clarence Court, St Luke’s Cork.
Site type: Early Bronze Age cremation burial
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 635818m, N 930424m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.119906, -7.438509
Monitoring of the construction of a residential development at Gransha, Buncrana (April 2007), revealed a spread of charcoal-rich material containing six sherds of pottery that are likely to be of Early Bronze Age date, together with six fragments of cremated bone and three flakes of quartz (not worked). The apparent extent of the spread measured 4.5m east–west by 8.5m. Preliminary examination of the pottery suggests the sherds were part of a bowl food vessel.
Excavation (September 2007) of the spread revealed the heavily truncated and disturbed remains of an Early Bronze Age cremation burial. The remains consisted of a shallow spread of charcoal-rich grey clay lying directly on the natural boulder clay. No further finds of archaeological significance were uncovered during the excavation of the site.
