County: Mayo Site name: Aghalusky 1
Sites and Monuments Record No.: none Licence number: E004685
Author: Siobhán McNamara
Site type: Possible hearth, early medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 517381m, N 791637m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.867594, -9.256176
The possible hearth (F003) was exposed below the sod and topsoil (F001) at a depth of 0.36m. It measured 0.86m in length, 0.61m in width and 0.2m in depth and had been filled with a mid – dark brown silty clay containing occasional inclusions of charcoal and oxidized clay (F004). A C14 date was obtained from the hazel charcoal from the fill of this feature during the Stage II testing phase, which returned a date of AD 1030 – AD 1189 (95.4% probability) which dates to the early medieval period.
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