County: Waterford Site name: Bawnfune 5
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A037; E3443
Author: Robert O’Hara, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd, Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
Site type: Possible burnt-mound activity
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 655089m, N 609870m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.237809, -7.193428
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.
