Excavation

Located in a low-lying landscape with a N-S stream c. 40m to the W and an E-W stream c. 100m to the N. It was excavated (E3569) as the W part of Area 5 during 2006 on the N side of the existing road as part of the N25 road re-alignment scheme. Four adjacent pits were excavated. One (diam. 0.7m; D 0.15) contained some flints. Immediately to the S a second pit (diam. diam. 0.75m; D 0.2m) contained no artefacts, but the third oval pit (dims 0.85m N-S; 0.6m E-W; D 0.16m) was 1.6m to the W, and contained silty clay with charcoal flecks, flint debitage, and a sherd of a Neolithic carinated bowl. Just to its S a fourth pit (dims. 0.8m x 0.6m; D 0.2m) also had flint debitage, but also produced a C14 date of cal BC 1952-1745. (Hegarty 2007c, 7-8, 10) Hegarty, L. (2007c) N25 Kilsalebeg Realignment. Final report on archaeological and paleoenvironmental investigations in the townlands of Shancoole and Pillotown, Co. Waterford. Headland Archaeology Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011