County: Sligo Site name: Tawnagh 2
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E004793; Ministerial Direction No.: A071
Author: Lydia Cagney
Site type: Charcoal-production pit/lithics-production pit
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 547110m, N 816762m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.097223, -8.808587
Stage (iii) archaeological excavation was carried out at Tawnagh 2 in advance of the N4 Collooney to Castlebaldwin Road Development, Co. Sligo. The site was discovered during Stage (i) archaeological testing and was assessed during Stage (ii) Pre-Excavation Services (Registration Number E4627).
The excavation at Tawnagh 2 recorded the remains of one possible charcoal-production pit that may have been reused as an area of lithic production.
This pit produced one hundred lithics, mostly debitage with some flakes, scrapers, a bore and chunks of material also present. These artefacts were of chert, flint, quartz and rhyolite. A further four lithics were recovered from the topsoil, three of debitage and one scraper.
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