County: Carlow Site name: RATHCROGUE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E002594
Author: Joanne Hughes, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Cremation pit
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 676069m, N 673074m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.803293, -6.871857
The site was excavated as part of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford scheme: Kilcullen to Powerstown. A single cremation pit containing charcoal, burnt bone and possible prehistoric pottery was uncovered, measuring 0.6m wide and 0.33m deep. A flint flake was found in the topsoil elsewhere in the field.
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