County: Offaly Site name: Meenwaun windfarm
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 17E0023
Author: Ros Ó Maoldúin
Site type: Early Bronze Age pits and a stone axe
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 712955m, N 605120m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.166976, -7.923434
Monitoring and testing work was carried out in advance of construction works related to Meenwaun Windfarm near Banagher, Co. Offaly. Archaeological evidence was uncovered at one location. The remains included a Neolithic stone axe, two oval pits filled by burnt mound-like material, several stake-holes and spreads of burnt material, located along the banks of a probable palaeostream (Fig 1). A radiocarbon date from one of the pits returned an Early Bronze Age date of 2040–1890 cal BC (2 Sigma). The remains were fully excavated and were the subject of an Archaeology Ireland article (Ó Maoldúin & Danaher 2018).
Reference:
Ó Maoldúin, R. & Danaher, E. 2018. The Biography of an Axe. Archaeology Ireland. 31 (1), 17-20.
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