Discover Alone ← Back to nearby map

← Back to the nearby map

Excavation — miscellaneous in Danesfort

Excavation — miscellaneous
View what I want to do
No photo yet

Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.

Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.

Add your photo and local directionsShare what you found

What is recorded here

On an undulating plain in pasture. Excavated in 2007 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3537). A series of 8 circular pits (diam. c. 1m; D 0.25m) in no definite pattern, a post-hole and two possible stake-holes. Four of the pits and the post-hole contained sherds of middle Neolithic pottery. The pits may have been refuse pits for domestic waste. The pottery represented at least 3 globular bowls and distinctive sherds from one vessel came from the fills of two different pits and the post-hole. A sample of ash charcoal from one pit yielded a radiocarbon date of 3651-3526 cal BC (UBA-12203). (Devine 2010, 241, no. 903; Devine and Coughlan 2012) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 25 November 2013

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.