2014:376 - KILL HILL (Site 17), Tipperary
County: Tipperary
Site name: KILL HILL (Site 17)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 14E0216
Author: Sean Shanahan
Author/Organisation Address: 39A Hebron Business Park, Kilkenny
Site type: Flat cemetery and Kiln
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 613548m, N 643679m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.544280, -7.800265
The site comprised of an exposed roadway that had been stripped during monitoring. When excavated the site comprised of a flat cremation cemetery dated between 1618 and 1309 BC from 10 dates (OxCal13 95.4%), a kiln dated to 748-884 AD and ancillary settlement activity including post- and stake-holes as well as a drainage ditch.
