County: Tipperary Site name: Knockadromin 1
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E005275
Author: Bruce Sutton for Rubicon Heritage Services Ltd
Site type: Burnt mound with associated troughs, metal working
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 570922m, N 669603m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.776670, -8.430971
Excavation at Knockadromin 1 was undertaken as part of the Killaloe Bypass, Shannon Crossing and R494 Improvements Scheme, Archaeological Consultancy Services Contract (Phase 2). The excavation was carried out on behalf of, and funded by, Clare County Council.
The excavated features at Knockadromin 1 comprised the remains of a burnt mound and associated troughs, a metal-working pit and charcoal-production pit. Analysis of the findings from the excavation is still on-going. However, some preliminary conclusions can be drawn from the results of the excavation and the analysis to date.
Phase I activity at Knockadromin 1 is represented by a burnt mound and associated trough, pits, hearth and stake-holes. The presence of pyrolithic material suggests a general prehistoric date for the Phase I activities. This may be further narrowed down to a Bronze Age date based on general dating evidence of this monument type.
Phase II activity at Knockadromin 1 is represented by a metal-working pit and charcoal-production pit. However, these deposits contained no diagnostic material that can be used to assign a tentative date. At present it is assumed they are contemporaneous features. The presence of iron slag within the fill of metal working pit [009] suggests Phase II activity at least post-dates the Bronze Age.
Radiocarbon dating as part of Stage (iv) post-excavation works will allow us to properly date these features.
This report will be updated once specialist analysis has been completed
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