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Kiln

Kiln, corn-drying

What is recorded here

On a low rise in relatively flat pastureland. Excavated in 2008 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3851). A keyhole-shaped cereal-drying kiln with oxidised burnt clay at the base of the N side. A limestone hone stone was recovered from the fill. A number of pits and hearths were excavated c. 20 to the W of the kiln. A sample of hazel charcoal from one of the pits yielded a radiocarbon date of cal AD 829-984 (UBA-12236). (Kyle 2010, 249, no. 944; Kyle and Coughlan 2012) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 December 2013

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