What is recorded here

Low earthen mounds in Timolin tempted imagination until shovels cut through them, revealing only gravel-digging scars rather than ancient walls. Yet medieval pottery and unnamed metal fragments surfaced in the topsoil, hinting that people once lived, discarded and forgotten above that disturbed ground. The false monument became a true one: not a chamber or castle, but a place where ordinary life still left marks behind stone and soil.

This was one of a series of archaeological investigations carried out on the proposed route of the N9 Realignment at Moone-Timolin-Ballitore Hill. A series of low earthen banks or mounds was noted in the initial paper survey. Four cuttings were excavated (Licence No. 99E0203) investigating different parts of the feature. No structural remains were found: the 'banks' and 'mounds' were irregularities left by gravel-digging. Some scattered medieval pottery was found in the topsoil, along with a few metal objects of unknown date. (www.excavations.ie)

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