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Identified by Avril Hayes during archaeological pre-development testing (Licence 00E0855) associated with the Limerick Southern Ring Road Project. A corn drying kiln (LI013-217----) was located approx. 10m to E. Excavated under licence no. 00E0855 ext. by Avril Hayes (Hayes 2001), the results were summarised as following; ‘A ‘token’ cremation deposit was recovered from one of the isolated pits. The pit measured 0.35m in diameter and was 0.4m in depth. This adult cremation consisted of long bone fragments with some skull vault fragments and one finger bone fragment’ (www.excavations.ie 2001; 595 & 796, Hayes 2001, 16).
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date upload: 30 June 2020
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