County: Mayo Site name: Claggarnagh East 4/5
Sites and Monuments Record No.: none Licence number: E004694
Author: Siobhan McNamara
Site type: Burnt stone spread
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 508664m, N 786634m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.821189, -9.387185
Two burnt stone spreads, cultivation furrows, stone-filled land drains and a possible pit/trough were identified at Claggarnagh East 4/5. The larger spread (F03) to the west measured 12m east-west by 7m and the smaller spread (F04) to the east and upslope measured 6m by 6.2m. A possible trough/pit (F08) was located just north of the smaller spread to the east of the site. It was rectangular in plan and extended beyond the land-take. The trough was originally timber lined but only the base timbers and the lower of the side-wall timbers survived in a poor state of preservation. It measured 1.8m by 1.3m with a maximum depth of 0.58m. The base of the timber-lined trough sealed an earlier alder plank which displays evidence for possible saw marks. No finds were recovered from this site.
Post-excavation analysis is ongoing for this site and it is hoped to obtain dating evidence from radiocarbon analysis of charcoal samples recovered.
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