County: Cork Site name: MALLOW: Castlelands
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 33:11(01, 02) Licence number: 00E0830 ext.
Author: Sheila Lane
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 556567m, N 598394m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.135703, -8.634444
Planning permission was granted in 1997 for a large-scale housing estate at Castlelands, within the demesne of Mallow Castle. An assessment of the site, which included testing in the area of a levelled ringfort, was carried out by Avril Purcell in May 2001 (Excavations 2001, No. 205). Monitoring of the present phase of the development revealed one feature in an area close to the levelled ringfort. This was a small pit measuring 0.45m by 0.7m with a maximum depth of 0.18m. The fill was red/brown silty clay with moderate inclusions of charcoal flecks and small round stones. Three pieces of possible Bronze Age or Neolithic pottery were recovered from the base of the feature.
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