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Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Knockrathkyle 1 (Hardy et al. 2010, 11-3). It is situated on the E side of a slight col with slightly higher ground c. 700m to the W and a low hill c. 600m to the E. It was excavated (E4174) by C. Hardy when two ring-ditches, 13 cremation pits, and two possible structures came to light. An earlier Beaker phase may be represented and a resistivity survey identified at least two ring-ditches outside the road-take and the excavated area.
The thirteen cremation pits were either small and shallow (dims 0.3-0.8m; D 0.1-0.2m) or more steep-sided and deeper (diam. 0.55-0.9m; D 0.23-0.4m), but all contained charcoal and cremated bone. Ten of them formed a line (L 5.5m N-S) c. 7m E of the ring-ditch (WX026-089002-) and c. 10m NW of the structure (WX026-089004-). (Hardy 2012, 10-11; 2013)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 29 November, 2013
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