County: Limerick Site name: BRACKBAUN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E002338
Author: Melanie McQuade, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Cremation pit
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 588438m, N 616877m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.303423, -8.169520
This site was investigated under Ministerial Directive A035/00 in advance of the N8 road improvement scheme between Cashel, Co. Tipperary, and Mitchelstown, Co. Cork. It was located on low-lying pastureland at the foothills of the Galtee Mountains and was situated 75m to the east of Site 4602A2 (see No. 1244, Excavations 2006, E2339) and 210m south-west of Site 4602A3 (see No. 1245, Excavations 2006, E2340). The site lay at 117.32m OD and the area of excavation measured 18m by 13m. A single cremation burial was excavated on the site. The burial was contained within an upright food vessel that had been placed within an unlined pit. The pottery was fragmented, but most of the vessel survived. The cremated bone was deposited with black charcoal-rich silty sand and a similar deposit of black silty sand with a higher charcoal content was found beneath the food vessel. At the time of writing, specialist analysis is ongoing.
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