caa a22 4500 388103469 CHVBK 20180307125329.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0079497X0000205X doi S0079497X0000205X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0079497X0000205X Excavation and Environmental Analysis of a Neolithic Mound and Iron Age Barrow Cemetery at Rathdooney Beg, County Sligo, Ireland [Elektronische Daten] Excavations and environmental analysis of a mound and two barrows indicate that activity commenced within the range 3930-3520 cal BC with the construction of a large mound enclosed by a substantial ditch on a drumlin which had been largely cleared to grassland. A pollen sequence recovered from the fosse indicates that the drumlin remained under grassland for some time. It was still under grassland in the Iron Age when a pair of sequential barrows was constructed about the period 380 cal BC-cal AD 80. The earlier bowl barrow covered a pyre site with remains of an inhumation burial, and the later saucer barrow contained three token cremation deposits in the low mound and ditch, the last associated with the iron fittings from a wooden artefact. Pollen analysis of the ditch sequences from the barrows indicates that the drumlin remained open and heather-covered. Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1999 Mount Charles The Heritage Council, Kilkenny, Ireland Weir D.A. 4 Mount Michael Drive, Belfast Collins B. Stoat Cottage, Co. Dublin Lynch P. San Mateo, Lispopple, Swords, Co. Dublin O'Sullivan A. The Discovery Programme, 13-15 Hatch Street Lower, Dublin Deevy M. The Discovery Programme, 13-15 Hatch Street Lower, Dublin Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Cambridge University Press 65(1999), 337-371 0079-497X 65<337 1999 65 PPR https://doi.org/10.1017/S0079497X0000205X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0079497X0000205X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mount Charles The Heritage Council, Kilkenny, Ireland NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Weir D.A. 4 Mount Michael Drive, Belfast NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Collins B. Stoat Cottage, Co. Dublin NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lynch P. San Mateo, Lispopple, Swords, Co. Dublin NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- O'Sullivan A. The Discovery Programme, 13-15 Hatch Street Lower, Dublin NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Deevy M. The Discovery Programme, 13-15 Hatch Street Lower, Dublin NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Cambridge University Press 65(1999), 337-371 0079-497X 65<337 1999 65 PPR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge