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This Neolithic House Site, No. 6, is part of Eogan's Phase 3 Decorated Pottery complex: Domestic activity - Zone G, which is situated beneath Tombs 1C and 17. This phase, now called Middle Neolithic, is associated with the building of the tombs and is dated to c. 3500-2900 cal. BC (Eogan and Cleary 2017, 41). This house is in a layer of habitation material that produced evidence of 8 hearths and 3 houses, and provided 2 radiocarbon dates – 4875 +-150 BP (3990-3350 cal. BC) and 4795 +- 185 BP (3990-3040 cal. BC). House site No. 6 was located partially beneath the mound material of Tomb 1C, and it consisted of an arc (diam. 6m) of 15 stake-holes with a central oval hearth. The zone produced fragments of 6 decorated pottery vessels and some flints. (Eogan and Roche 1997, 60-5)
Ture location: ITM (699650, 773462)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 25 November 2013
Amended: 17 September 2020
See the attached plans:
_1 Cemetery plan from Knowth 1, Fig. 2:1
_2 House plan from Knowth 2, Fig. 12
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