County: Limerick Site name: CAHERANARDRISH(BGE 4/2/1)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1732
Author: Ken Wiggins, for Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Flat cemetery
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 553029m, N 653233m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.628295, -8.693805
The site, on flat pastureland, was discovered during monitoring of topsoil-stripping along the Bord Gáis Éireann Barnakyle to Coonagh West gas pipeline (No. 1128, Excavations 2002, 02E1649). It was initially identified as two circular patches of charcoal-rich soil. Eventually, a group of four cremation pits was excavated. The overall dimensions of the site were 3.7m (north–south) by 1.6m. Of the cremation pits, F1 was 0.41m long, 0.38m wide and 0.18m deep; F2 was 0.38m in diameter and 0.36m deep; F3 was 0.54m long, 0.45m wide and 0.15m deep; and F4 was 0.45m long, 0.43m wide and 0.1m deep. The features were filled with charcoal-rich soil containing fragments of cremated bone.
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