County: Carlow Site name: CLOGHRISTICK
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A021/045
Author: Joanne Hughes, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Burial and Pit
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 670552m, N 669178m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.769031, -6.954498
A single east–west-oriented supine extended inhumation was identified in the base of a cultivation furrow, close to the existing N9 roadway during Contract 3 testing on the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road scheme. No diagnostic dating evidence was found directly associated with this skeleton (which remains in situ for the resolution phase of work), although post-medieval finds were found in adjacent features. All of these features were within a natural hollow, which had been filled with up to 1.7m of topsoil, presumably at the same time as the Powerstown site A021/044 (see No. 105, Excavations 2005).
To the north of these features a possible post-hole and subrectangular pit were recorded. The pit contained evidence for burning in situ. Two narrow gullies or ditches were also identified, one of which contained burnt-mound-type material and small particles of burnt bone in its fill.
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