2012:344 - Site 4-5 Cotterellsrath, Kilkenny

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kilkenny Site name: Site 4-5 Cotterellsrath

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 12E0338

Author: AISLING MULCAHY

Site type: Pits and post-hole

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 649612m, N 646568m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.568154, -7.268179

Site 4-5 Cotterellsrath was discovered during monitoring of topsoil stripping for the Bord Gáis Networks Gas to Great Island scheme (above No. 334, 12E0356). Eight pits and a post-hole were excavated.
Six of the pits formed a U-shaped arc measuring 8m by 5m and could potentially represent structural remains. Two additional pits and a post-hole were located outside the main cluster. The pits were generally sub-circular or oval and varied in size from 0.28m by 0.26m to 0.6m by 0.6m. Burnt bone was recovered from two of the pits.

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