County: Kildare Site name: CHERRYVILLE (Site 6)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0583
Author: Thaddeus C. Breen, for Project Director Valerie J. Keeley
Site type: Burnt spread
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 669597m, N 711996m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.153917, -6.959443
Site 6 was immediately to the east of Site 5 (Excavations 2001, No. 616). It consisted principally of a spread of burnt stone and charcoal-rich soil, 9m by 7m by only 0.1m thick. It overlay a layer of compact dark brown clay (C109) which extended beyond it to the north, and a thin layer of peat which extended beyond it to the south. A stone axehead was found in 109. A small number of waste flint flakes were found, mostly in 109 and the burnt spread proper. A few small irregular hollows were found under the burnt spread, but the only real pit was 113, a shallow subrectangular structure measuring 1.23m by 0.7m with a maximum depth of 0.1m. It lay directly under the topsoil, and was cut into the burnt spread and 109. It was filled with a light grey to white silty clay which contained some burnt stone (mostly limestone). At the base, in the middle, were two stake-holes side by side. To the east of the burnt spread was a modern ditch which had been backfilled in recent years.
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