County: Cork Site name: Dunkettle 1
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E5029
Author: Bruce Sutton of Rubicon Heritage Ltd
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 573727m, N 572789m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.906625, -8.381829
Excavation Dunkettle 1, as part of the N25 Dunkettle Interchange Motorway Improvement Scheme Archaeological Consultancy Services Contract, revealed a disturbed burnt mound, two archaeological pits and four linear features.
Mound material at Dunkettle 1 consisted of a single deposit of charcoal-rich dark brown to black silty clay with heat-shattered sandstone and limestone. The mound had been truncated during the 20th century, with modern inclusions such as plastic sitting directly over the surviving L-shaped mound material.
The original size and shape of the mound was impossible to determine. However, the presence of mound material in two features to the west would suggest it originally extended in this direction for an unknown distance.
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