2015:000 - KILBALLYHERBERRY: Killhill Windfarm (Site 4), Tipperary
County: Tipperary
Site name: KILBALLYHERBERRY: Killhill Windfarm (Site 4)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 14E0189
Author: Bruce Sutton for Shanarc Archaeology
Author/Organisation Address: 15 Woodlawn Archers Ave, Co. Kilkenny
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 614552m, N 643032m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.321839, -7.477752
In the course of monitoring, a number of potential archaeological features were identified within the hardstand area of Turbine 9 at Kill Hill Windfarm. Two pits were excavated, both rich in charcoal. From the evidence we can assume that one pit, with fire-reddened clay around the edges, represents a hearth or fire-pit used on a number of occasions. The second pit, given its charcoal-rich fill with no evidence of in situ burning and relative proximity to the first, would suggest this represents a waste pit for the nearby hearth.