County: Limerick Site name: TULLERBOY (BGE 3/73/2)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0501
Author: Kate Taylor, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Burnt pit
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 555976m, N 636149m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.474995, -8.648007
This site, a single isolated pit, was examined as part of Bord Gáis Éireann’s Pipeline to the West. It was subcircular, measuring 0.71m by 0.64m, and was 0.13m deep, with a bowl-shaped profile. The fill was a dark grey, silty clay with moderate fire-cracked stone and charcoal components.
No artefacts were recovered. A small amount of fragmentary charcoal from a soil sample should be suitable for species identification and may produce a radiocarbon determination.
This site is typical of many excavated during the project, with small pits containing deposits resembling the material from fulachta fiadh. The site may represent a single event of heating water or a feature that was used a limited number of times, with only a small amount of burnt stone waste produced. In the absence of absolute dating, the site is considered likely to be Bronze Age.
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