Excavation

Situated on a gentle E-facing slope. Identified in centre-line testing (05E0763) of the alternate route of the N25 Waterford city bypass (Russell 2008b), and excavated completely (E3445) as Bawnfune 3 during 2007 (O'Hara 2010d). Six small pits (diam. c. 1m; D c. 0.5m) surrounded a small depression (dims. c. 15m x c. 10m; D c. 0.2m) that may have been a shallow pond. A post-hole produced a C14 date of cal BC 3200-2030 BC. No artefacts were recovered, but it may have played a role in relation to the burnt mound (WA017-131002-), c. 60m to the E. (O'Hara, R. 2009d); O'Hara and Ginn 2011b O'Hara, R. (2009d) N25 Waterford bypass alternative route. Archaeological investigation. Contract 1. Final reprot on the Archaeological excavation of Bawnfune 3. E3445. Unpublished report. DEHLG. Archaeological Consultancy Services. O'Hara, R. (2010d) Bawnfune 3. Pits. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2007: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 511, No. 1803. Wordwell. Dublin. Russell, I. (2008b) Various townlands. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 361, No. 1481. Wordwell. Dublin. O’Hara, R. and V. Ginn (2011b) Bawnfune 3, Co. Waterford. in J. Eogan and E. Shee-Twohig (2011) Cois tSiúire – nine thousand years of human activity in the lower Suir valley. Archaeological excavations on the N25 Waterford city bypass, vol. 1, 51. NRA road scheme: Monograph 8, Dublin Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 May 2011