County: Limerick Site name: Bolane 1
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 12E228
Author: Fintan Walsh
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 515393m, N 648619m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.582268, -9.248454
A programme of excavation was carried out prior to the development of the N69 Bolane Bends Improvement Scheme. The site at Bolane 1 was discovered during advance testing along the proposed realignment undertaken in June 2012 by Sébastien Joubert of the NRA (above No. 386, 12E161). Excavation work at Bolane 1 was undertaken on behalf of the Limerick County Council and took place between 16 and 24 July 2012. The archaeological remains excavated consisted of a truncated burnt mound positioned on undulating marginal ground. The site contained two large troughs, three pits, a linear gully and two pit/depressions which were sealed by a levelled burnt mound deposit that measured 15.2m x 11.3m x 0.44m deep.
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