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2023:724 - EARLS WELL Rochfordstown, Waterfall, Cork

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Cork

Site name: EARLS WELL Rochfordstown, Waterfall

Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO085-045 & CO085-046

Licence number: 22E0395

Author: Avril Purcell, Lane Purcell Archaeology

Author/Organisation Address: 64 Fr Mathew Rd, Turner's Cross, Cork

Site type: Fulacht fia

Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)

ITM: E 561983m, N 567049m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.854352, -8.551867

Archaeological monitoring of backfilling above two fulachtaí fiadh was carried out as part of an agreed landscape plan for this residential site. Geotextile membrane was laid above the existing sod across the buffer zones of both sites. Subsoil was laid above this capped with topsoil. No features or finds of archaeological significance were identified.


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