County: Limerick Site name: INCHINCLARE (BGE 3/71/1)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0551
Author: Kate Taylor, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Pit with Burnt spread
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 553820m, N 636960m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.482105, -8.679861
This site was examined as part of Bord Gáis Éireann’s Pipeline to the West. Three pits of varying dimensions were excavated. The fills of all of the features were similar, a dark grey, silty clay with moderate burnt stone and flecks of charcoal. No artefacts were recovered.
Pit 2 was amorphous in plan, measuring 2.8m north–south by 1.7m, and was 0.23m deep, with concave sides and a fairly flat base. As the entire feature was not revealed, it is possible that the excavated evidence represents the terminus of a wide curvilinear feature extending into the adjacent field. The fill of the pit also spread beyond the eastern limits of the cut feature. A late post-medieval stone-filled drain cut across the pit.
Pit 8 was a linear feature with slightly bulbous ends, which measured 2.64m north–south by 0.8m and was 0.22m deep. Pit 9 was a small teardrop-shaped feature, which measured 0.95m east–west by 0.5m and was 0.22m deep, with steep sides and a concave base.
This site is typical of many excavated during the project, with pits containing material including charcoal and fire-cracked stone. These deposits resemble the material from fulachta fiadh. Although no datable material was recovered, a prehistoric, probably Bronze Age, date seems feasible.
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