It's days like today that make me worried for how people will receive my research that deals with certain possible survivals of paganism in the early medieval period.
I will also say that the place of the dead in late Iron Age and early medieval Irish society was interesting. Lots of burials around significant ritual places (i.e. Tara), and ancestral burials along borders (boundary ferta) may have been about protecting the tuath from outsiders
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early medieval ritual sites were often overlaid on older neolithic/bronze age/early iron age sites, because of a possible association with the perceived ancient ancestors. Remains were interred with older ones too. This is a very very old practice though, Bronze Age maybe.
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