What is recorded here

In County Kerry, two small pits sat two metres apart, hiding charcoal and rounded stones until industrial expansion broke the soil. One pit measured forty centimetres across and seventeen centimetres deep, perhaps gripping a wooden post that once stood near a rath. The chance discovery turns a forgotten field into a place where human hands shaped the earth before roads or estates existed.

One of two pits (see KE067-121001-), c. 2m apart, which were revealed during archaeological monitoring of groundworks for an extension to Ballyspillane industrial estate (Lynch 2004, 223). Excavation of this subcircular pit (Wth 0.4m; D 0.17m) revealed that it contained charcoal with significant deposits of rounded stones and the excavator suggests that it may have held a wooden post and may have been associated with a rath (KE067-014----) c. 150m to the SE (ibid.). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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