2014:382 - KILL HILL (Site 4), Tipperary
County: Tipperary
Site name: KILL HILL (Site 4)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 14E0189
Author: Sean Shanahan, Shanarc Archaeology Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 39A Hebron Business Park, Kilkenny
Site type: Hearth
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 614552m, N 643032m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.538439, -7.785491
This feature was exposed during monitoring of the construction of a windfarm fro Bord Gáis. The hearths dimensions were 0.64m x 0.48m x 0.2m and contained two contexts. There were no associated features and no artefacts were found during excavation. Samples were taken for analysis and a fragment of bone thought to be animal was found by a specialist to be possibly human. The charcoal yielded identified hazel which when dated gave a range of 1921-1746 BC (OxCal 95.4%).
