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Two pits were revealed during excavations undertaken in 2001 prior to the reinstatement of a displaced standing stone (CO093-033----). The smaller of the pits (diam. 0.15m; D 0.70m) was subcircular in plan and was cut through the redeposited boulder clay. The fill was a brown sandy silt containing occasional small charcoal flecks and pebbles. The larger pit (0.25m x 0.31m; D 0.16m) was situated c. 0.12m to the S and was roughly oval in plan with the N and E sides sloping gradually to an uneven base (Wth 0.11m). The fill was a loose, dark-brown to black, silty sediment containing occasional charcoal and pebbles. The pit cut into redeposited boulder clay and also into the N side of the backfilled socket for the standing stone. The excavation also uncovered a cremation pit (CO093-033001-). (McCarthy 2002a; 2003, 50-52)
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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