Excavation

Situated on a fairly level landscape, c. 100m from a small N-S stream to the E and c. 100m from a small W-E stream to the S. Identified in centre-line testing (10E0299) in Area 7 of the N5 Ballaghaderreen bypass as an area of c. 100 sq m with numerous small pits, one of which produced prehistoric pottery were recovered in small area. It was set aside for further work as Toobrackan 4. (Janes and Delaney 2010b, 8-9) There was further excavation (10E0383) when nine features, either post-holes or small pits (diam. c. 0.7-1m; D 0.15-0.25m) cut into the sandy clay subsoil were recorded. They were filled with brown or black silty clay, and produced C14 dates in the early Neolithic period (3900-3500 BC) (Delaney et al 2016, 82). This is in perfect accord with the sherds of two or three carinated Neolithic bowls that were recovered. (Kyle and Delaney 2011j; Kyle 2013f; Delaney at al. 2016) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 11 August, 2017