2012:485 - Drumcaw 1, Monaghan

Following testing in advance of the N2 Emyvale to Monaghan Road Improvement Scheme, Co. Monaghan, an excavation was undertaken in July 2012 of a disturbed fulacht fiadh in Drumcaw townland. The site was contained within a 10m x 10m area and survived as a disturbed spread of heat-shattered rock in a charcoal-rich clay matrix (6m north-south by 6.3m by 0.22m deep). No cut features were recorded adjacent to or under the burnt spread, which was cut by a modern field drain. Charcoal (ash and hazel) was recovered from environmental samples, however no archaeological artefacts were recorded. A radiocarbon date of 2470–2288 BC indicated it was used in the Early Bronze Age period.

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