What is recorded here

On a S-facing slope in pasture. Excavated in 2006-7 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Road Improvement Scheme. Excavation licence no. 2517, AR053 Area B. Evidence for ferrous metalworking was located SE of an Iron Age palisaded enclosure (KK031-076----) and consisted of three clusters of furnaces with associated pits, and two isolated bowl type furnaces. In addition to this, a number of stake-holes, post-holes and scattered pits were excavated in the immediate vicinity. A clear pattern was displayed by all bowl furnaces. They presented a circular shape in plan and contained large quantities of iron slag, charcoal and oxidised clay. Specialist analysis of the metallurgical remains indicated that iron smelting was conducted and that there is evidence for iron smithing. Three radiocarbon dates were obtained ranging from 352-295 BC (UB 10695) to 42 BC – AD 62 (UB 10693). (Channing 2009, 255-6, no. 1003; 2010a, 234, no. 881; 2010b) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 25 September 2013

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