2009:689 - BALLINLOUGH/COMMONS/FALLEDEEN/SRAH, Roscommon

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Roscommon

Site name: BALLINLOUGH/COMMONS/FALLEDEEN/SRAH

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 08E0976

Author: Kate Taylor, TVAS (Ireland) Ltd.

Site type: Burnt spread

Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)

ITM: E 558160m, N 777067m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.741568, -8.634235

Monitoring of a sewerage scheme located a burntstone spread in Ballinlough townland (NGR 158633 276938). The deposit measured 12m long by 1m (maximum) thick within the pipe trench. Alder, hazel and oak charcoal was identified from the deposit. A radiocarbon determination of 1047–894, 872–850 cal BC (UBA13270) was obtained from alder/hazel charcoal.