County: Roscommon Site name: Ballinphuill
Sites and Monuments Record No.: RO008-046 Licence number: 14E0053
Author: Billy Quinn
Site type: Charcoal spread
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 566496m, N 793535m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.890141, -8.509673
Test excavation took place at a former forestry plantation at Ballinphuill, Co. Roscommon between 27 February and 2 March 2014. The site is located to the south of a ringfort RO008-046. Testing involved the mechanical excavation of 16 trenches with a cumulative length of 835m. The testing exposed an entirely natural stratigraphy throughout the site comprising a thin topsoil over a compact natural clay. The only feature of note was a sub-circular, charcoal spread 0.6m in diameter in Trench 3 (ITM E566370 N793031). This feature was half sectioned and contained some small charcoal flecks with no associated finds or features. This could be a fire spot or evidence of field clearance by burning.
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