What is recorded here

Half a metre wide and twenty centimetres deep, the pit held black clay, fire-cracked stones and charcoal dated to 1490-1200 cal. BC. It is not a chamber or a cache; it is a hole dug by people who lived beside the road now called the Youghal Bypass. They may have stored clay, burned refuse or marked a boundary. The pit is small enough to overlook and old enough to stop a car in thought.

Following archaeological testing and monitoring on the N25 Youghal Bypass a circular pit (0.45m N-S; 0.41m E-W; D 0.21m) was excavated in 2001. The two fills were of a similar compact, blackish, silty clay and contained small fire-cracked stones and flecks of charcoal. A carbon sample produced a date of 1490-1200 cal. BC (Noonan 2003g, 56). (Noonan 2001a; 2003g, 55-6) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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