County: Limerick Site name: BALLYMACKEAMORE (BGE 3/66/3)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0490
Author: Emer Dennehy, for Margaret & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 547669m, N 639563m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.504947, -8.770814
This site was exposed during the monitoring of topsoil-stripping along the route of a Bord Gáis Éireann Pipeline to the West.
This isolated pit measured 0.52m north–south by 0.45m and was 0.2m deep. The east and west sides were stepped; the north side was straight; and the south side was overcut. There were two distinct fills. The lower fill was composed of 20% sandstone in an orange/brown silty clay matrix with charcoal flecks. The upper fill was composed of 5% burnt sandstone in a dark grey, silty clay matrix with 12% charcoal and 3% burnt clay.
No artefacts or inclusions were identified within the fill to indicate its function or time frame. The presence of charcoal and burnt clay may indicate that it functioned as a small pot-boiler. This interpretation is supported by the location of this pit in proximity to two large fulachta fiadh, BGE 3/66/4 (No. 1104, Excavations 2002, 02E0579, excavated by Graham Hull) and BGE 3/66/12 (No. 1187, Excavations 2002, 02E0559).
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