Excavation

Situated on a gentle S-facing slope. Identified in centre-line testing (10E0299) in Area 7 of the N5 Ballaghaderreen bypass as a spread of burnt material with charcoal (diam. 1.2m; max. D 0.25m) filled with a charcoal-rich silty clay, which was set aside for further work as Toobrackan 3, (Janes and Delaney 2010b, 8). It was subsequently completely excavated (10E0382) as a single oval pit (dims. 1.4m x 1.2m; D 0.2m) with steep sides cut into the sandy clay subsoil and contained a sandy clay with heat-shattered stone and charcoal. A fragment of ash produced a C14 date of cal. AD 1048-1218, and it is interpreted as a cooking pit. (Kyle and Delaney 2011i; Kyle 2013e) Compiled by: Michael Moore date of upload: 15 February, 2012