County: Kildare Site name: BALLYHADE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E002573
Author: Linda Hegarty, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Flat cemetery
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 678115m, N 680816m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.872572, -6.839658
The site was excavated as part of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford scheme: Kilcullen to Powerstown. The site was situated on a south-facing slope immediately north of a tertiary road leading north-east from Palatine village. Excavation revealed six cremation pits clustered in an area measuring 6m by 4m in the centre of the site. All six pits contained deposits with burnt-bone fragments, with two of the pits yielding prehistoric pottery sherds. A small modern gravel-extraction pit was located towards the northern end of the site.
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