2003:1839 - WINDMILL (Site 39), Tipperary

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Tipperary Site name: WINDMILL (Site 39)

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0757

Author: Neil O'Flanagan and Liam McKinstry, for Judith Carroll Network

Site type: Hearth, Pit, Burial, Structure and Field boundary

Period/Dating: Multi-period

ITM: E 606235m, N 639664m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.508328, -7.908153

The resolution of Site 39 was carried out before the construction of the N8 Cashel Bypass and N74 Link Road. The site comprised a flat elongated area on the northern slopes of Windmill Hill. The excavation was carried out in June–July 2003 over a period of six weeks. It yielded evidence of stone-lined pits containing possible Bronze Age pottery, as well as a smithing hearth. An east-facing adult male skeleton was recovered nearby in a shallow grave, and the remains of medieval field boundaries enclosed what appears to be a rectangular-shaped house.

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