Baunogenasraid
Datedc. 2820–2750 BCE
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Overview
About this site
What the sources say
Baunogenasraid is an archaeological site and National Monument in County Carlow. The site was excavated in 1972 and discovered to contain a single neolithic burial mound which was expanded into a small cemetery in the early Bronze Age.
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Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
The full article
Baunogenasraid: the whole story
SettingSources for this section
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Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (English): BaunogenasraidCC BY-SA 4.0
Baunogenasraid is located north of the Burren River.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
British and Irish cists
In Britain and Ireland a cist is a small stone-built coffin-like box used to hold the dead, and it is one of the commonest finds in prehistoric graves. A cist may once have been covered by a cairn or a long barrow, and several are sometimes found together in the same cairn or barrow. Ornaments found in excavated cists point to the wealth or prominence of the person buried. The centre of a round barrow, which in Britain was mostly built between 2200 and 1100 BCE, may hold a stone cist or a cut grave, and the burial may be an inhumation or a cremation placed in a vessel.
The Bell Beaker phenomenon, which reached Britain and Ireland in the late Neolithic, brought individual burials, often under tumuli and with weapons, in place of the collective burials of the earlier Neolithic. Cists of this period are therefore often single graves. The Food Vessel culture of the Early Bronze Age used slab cists, and some of their stones carry cup and ring marks.
Kilmartin Glen in Argyll is the richest area, with numerous cists among its prehistoric monuments, including a linear cemetery of five burial cairns that runs for more than three miles. Several of its cairns and many natural rocks are decorated with cup and ring marks. More than 800 ancient monuments lie within ten kilometres of the village, 150 of them prehistoric.
The Atlas's cists are dated by their position in a barrow, by the pottery or ornaments found with the burial, and by radiocarbon dating of surviving bone. Where none is known, it gives a broad Neolithic to Bronze Age range.
When visiting, look for the slabs set on edge around a pit, and for the cap stone that may have fallen aside.
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From the article
Dated moments in the story
- 1972
The site was excavated in 1972 and discovered to contain a single neolithic burial mound which was expanded into a small cemetery in the early Bronze Age.
Source
See it in 3D
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Lore
Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
What the evidence supports
Dates
2820–2750 BCEHow this date was established: Radiocarbon dating1 radiocarbon date in the p3k14c database (Bird et al. 2022, Scientific Data 9:27 (p3k14c radiocarbon database)), 4735 ± 35 BP; uncalibrated age, shown as calendar years with the conventional BP + 1950 conversion.Source for this date
Where it stands
Ireland
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 52°48′45″ N, 6°49′25″ WFor a GPS or map app: 52.81242, -6.82369
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
- Menhir (standing stone)Menhir von Glenoge2800–1800 BCE
Brownshill Dolmen4000–3000 BCE- Menhir (standing stone)Ardristan Stone2800–1800 BCE
Haroldstown Dolmen4000–3000 BCE
Moylisha Wedge Tomb2500–2000 BCE- MegalithDonore Megalithic Tomb3300–2900 BCE
- Passage tomb (passage grave)Rathcoran3500–3000 BCE
- MegalithGates of Heaven3300–2900 BCE
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Sources
Every record behind this page, with the link it came from.
3 sources behind this page
- 01Wikidata Q811664wikidata.org
- 02Source for this datep3k14c.org
- 03Wikipedia: Baunogenasraiden.wikipedia.org
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Around this place
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Credit
Text, licence and sources
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