What is recorded here

One is a narrow charcoal pit holding Neolithic pottery, the other a flat rectangular burn mark, both exposed in 2004 when housing work scraped east of Castlemartyr. They are small, but they belong to a time when people still dropped fire, clay and intention into ordinary ground. The house will cover them again; the heat and the jar will not.

Two features were discovered during archaeological monitoring of topsoil removal in advance of a housing development to the E of Castlemartyr; these were excavated in 2004. One feature comprised an irregular pit (D c. 0.4m) containing charcoal and some Neolithic pottery. The second feature consisted of a rectangular spread (1.85m x 1.1m; D 0.14m) of charcoal, possibly the result of in situ burning. Deep ploughing is likely to have truncated the upper levels of the features exposed and any other associated features. Two other features were also discovered but excavation confirmed that these were of modern date. (Lane 2007b, 47) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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