County: Tipperary Site name: DER325, Cooleeny
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0160
Author: Sarah Cross, Lisheen Archaeological Project
Site type: Road - unclassified togher
Period/Dating: Iron Age (800 BC-AD 339)
ITM: E 622224m, N 665752m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.742389, -7.670861
This was a small irregular scatter of brushwood, dating from the mid-first millennium BC, measuring 3.4m by 1m and containing an artefact. The material was found in raised bog about 0.25m above DER31 (Excavations 1997, No. 524). Since it was so far from the edge of the bog, it is possible that it was laid to fill a wet hollow in the raised bog where work was already taking place.
The artefact was found in amongst the brushwood at this site. It is a piece of wood which has been carved along its length to produce expanded terminals which have been pierced. There are tool-marks along its length. One terminal is intact, one was damaged in antiquity, but all pieces were still in situ. While its form is similar to a yoke for carrying, it seems too slight for this purpose. Its position suggests deposition as scrap.
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