County: Tipperary Site name: CAHERABBEY UPPER (Site 103/104)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A035/000, E2299
Author: Bernice Molloy, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 603658m, N 625485m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.380910, -7.946270
This site was initially identified during test excavation carried out in August 2005 along the N8 Cashel to Mitchelstown road improvement scheme. The sites were subsequently excavated between 26 April and 3 May 2006.
Site 103 consisted of a large pit, possibly a well or water hole. The pit measured 7.5m in length and was 4.2m1 in width (continued beyond line of CPO) and c. 2.8m deep. A number of stake-holes, post-holes and small irregular pit features were located to the north and east of the pit. A sherd of pottery from one of these features was identified as Middle Neolithic in date (E. Grogan and H. Roche, pers. comm.).
Site 104, located 200m to the east of Site 103, consisted of a series of pits and associated post-holes. These pits measured between 0.52m and 1.1m in diameter and in depth between 0.15m and 0.25m. Packing stones located within these features would suggest that they are structural in function, although no coherent plan or form was evident to suggest a structure. No artefacts were recovered from any of the features excavated at this site.
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