2007:1824 - KILLOTERAN (11), Waterford
County: Waterford
Site name: KILLOTERAN (11)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: A037; E3827
Author: Ian Russell, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Site type: Burnt spread and Road - road/trackway
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 653917m, N 609612m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.235606, -7.210623
This site was excavated as part of the pre-construction archaeological mitigation of the N25 Waterford bypass. Eight burnt spreads and an oval, wattle-lined trough (1.78m by 1.52m by 0.55m) were revealed and may have been associated with the larger burnt-mound site excavated by John Purcell at Killoteran 7 (Excavations 2003, 03E1282). A possible timber trackway, constructed from round-sectioned timbers laid flat on overlying peaty clay and held in place by a number of wooden stakes, was also discovered. Axe marks were present on many of the timbers. The trackway lay below one of the burnt spreads and may therefore pre-date the burnt-spread activity.