County: Tipperary Site name: RICHMOND (Site K)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0216
Author: Donald Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Kiln
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 584500m, N 680848m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.878296, -8.230265
This site lay immediately west of, and was contemporary with, part of site A1 (see Excavations 2000, No. 935) and was exposed following the removal of the topsoil. The site, which measured 15m by 20m, contained a disturbed kiln, which consisted of two separate spreads of charcoal, both of which contained a stone setting and could have functioned as flue walls. A layer of oxidised clay, which probably functioned as a hearth, lay between the two charcoal spreads (a charcoal sample was taken from the charcoal spreads and returned a date of AD 1486–1644). Other features exposed on this site included a ditch, which pre-dated the kiln, an east–west ditch (a charcoal sample taken from this ditch returned a date of AD 1489–1663), an L-shaped ditch, which was related to the above, and various post-medieval and modern features, including cultivation furrows.
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