2005:192 - BUTTEVANT: Kerry Lane, Cork

The rescue excavation of a number of features identified on a proposed development site during testing was undertaken in October 2005. Two cuttings were opened on the site around potential archaeological features which consisted of two large pits and a ditch in Cutting 1 and a possible boundary ditch in Cutting 2. Finds from the excavated features indicate a medieval date (possibly 13th/14th century) for the large pits in Cutting 1 and the boundary ditch in Cutting 2. No datable artefacts were recovered from the ditch in Cutting 1. This ditch extended outside the current limit of excavation into the proposed carpark area. A preliminary interpretation of the site is that it possibly functioned as a backyard/garden area in the medieval period, during which time large pits were dug and backfilled with waste material, probably of domestic origin. A possible corn-drying kiln represents a later phase of activity on the site. It was cut into the fill of a large pit in Cutting 1 but would also appear to date to the medieval period.

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