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2005:597 - FURZYBANK (Site 2.3), Galway

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Galway

Site name: FURZYBANK (Site 2.3)

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: A024/3

Author: Tom Janes, Headland Archaeology Ltd.

Author/Organisation Address: Unit 1, IDA Industrial Estate, Wallingstown, Little Island, Co. Cork

Site type: Burnt mound

Period/Dating: Undetermined

ITM: E 514919m, N 722679m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.247661, -9.274832

This site had previously been highlighted as an area of higher archaeological potential, based on the results of geophysical survey. Test-trenching identified one previously unidentified archaeological area as the plough-truncated remains of a burnt mound. The work was commissioned by Galway County Council National Roads Design Office and sponsored by the National Roads Authority.


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