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2009:368 - CORTRASNA: Aghadrumsee GFC, Fermanagh

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Fermanagh

Site name: CORTRASNA: Aghadrumsee GFC

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: AE/09/006

Author: Robert M. Chapple, Northern Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.

Author/Organisation Address: 638 Springfield Road, Belfast, BT12 7DY

Site type: Structure

Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)

ITM: E 649790m, N 832155m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.235841, -7.236248

Topsoil-stripping was carried out in April 2009 in advance of extension works to a GAA pitch in Aghadrumsee. The remains of a late medieval structure and associated gullies were uncovered along with four small isolated features. The structure was composed of four narrow slots and a possible post-hole. These slots formed a U-shaped arrangement with the open end facing north. The largest of these slots contained a significant quantity of charred cereal grains, which produced a radiocarbon date of 405±22 BP, calibrating to 1439–1615 cal AD. Forty-seven sherds of pottery, identified as 15th/16th-century mid-Ulster coarse-ware, were recovered from another of the slots.


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