County: Waterford Site name: WATERFORD: Cleaboy Industrial Park, Skibbereen
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WA009-020---- Licence number: 03E0156
Author: Colm Moloney, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 657876m, N 611493m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.252106, -7.152356
Monitoring was carried out on the groundworks for a proposed business park in the townland of Skibbereen c. 2.5km south-west of Waterford city centre. During the course of monitoring, three irregularly shaped pits and one spread were uncovered in the east of the proposed area of development.
Of the four features excavated, only Pit 1 produced datable archaeological artefacts. The pottery sherds (Bronze Age vase food vessel) recovered from the upper levels of this feature may constitute an example of a funerary vessel, associated with the development of new burial customs and ceramic types during the Early Bronze Age period. Environmental analysis of the deposits revealed a quantity of charred nutshell and charcoal.
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