County: Kilkenny Site name: DUNKITT
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0222
Author: Cathy Sheehan, ADS Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 657601m, N 616442m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.296623, -7.155525
Testing was carried out at the townland of Dunkitt, Co. Kilkenny, as part of investigation works for the N25 Waterford Bypass. The features of most significance were small spreads of burnt/oxidised soil and charcoal that occurred as satellite features around a deposit of burnt-mound material. Evidence of removed (18th- and 19th-century) field boundaries and associated cultivation furrows was also recorded. Sherds of prehistoric, medieval and post-medieval pottery, surface finds exposed by plough action, were recovered during field-walking of the southern half of the site. Proposals for mitigation include full excavation of known features and monitoring of all topsoil removal.
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