2007:1805 - BAWNFUNE (5), Waterford

This site was excavated as part of the pre-construction archaeological mitigation of the N25 Waterford bypass, alternative route, and consisted of seven small pits and two large troughs, which probably originated as tree boles. The first trough was subcircular (1.2m by 0.94m by 0.3m), the second more subrectangular (2.4m by 1m by 0.52m). All features contained burnt stone and charcoal and were uncovered beneath a thin and patchy spread of heat-fractured stone and charcoal (13.76m by 10.76m by 0.06m). No finds were recovered. Post-excavation analysis is still ongoing and radiocarbon dates were not available at the time of submission but a Bronze Age date is expected.