What is recorded here

Excavation in County Cork, Ireland, was a narrow pit cut through soil near the N22 Ballincollig Bypass. It held charcoal-stained clay and twenty-two broken pottery shards from the medieval period. The excavator believed it may have been a refuse pit, a place where ordinary life discarded what it no longer needed.

Following archaeological testing and monitoring on the N22 Ballincollig Bypass, a linear pit (1.15m NE-SW x 0.33m; D 0.14) was excavated in 2002. It was found to contain a single charcoal-stained deposit of a loose silty clay which yielded 22 sherds of medieval pottery. The excavator (Danaher 2005, 10) suggested that it may have been a refuse pit. (Danaher 2004a, 59; 2005a, 10) 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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