County: Limerick Site name: BRUFF/ARDYKEOHANE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0558
Author: Ross MacLeod, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Cremation pit, Barrow - ring-barrow and Pit
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 563013m, N 636294m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.476820, -8.544454
Topsoil-stripping at the proposed new Limerick County Council housing development in Bruff, Co. Limerick, revealed two areas of archaeological interest. The first area was a series of intercutting pits, typically sub-oval in shape, averaging 0.8m long by 0.7m wide with a depth of 0.4m and a dark blackish-brown sandy silt fill. Located further to the north the second area contained a ring-barrow with an internal diameter of c. 10m and a 2.74m-wide, 0.59m-deep ditch. Two token cremation burials were located within the barrow.
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