Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Kiln - corn-drying
Flemingtown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Flemingtown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.61863, -6.22288
- SMR number
- DU001-030----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Excavated in 2002 (licence no. 02E0296), the monument consisted of a sub-circular bowl (0.26m deep) with a shallow curvilinear flue cut into the natural subsoil. Three fills indicated at least three episodes of use, and each produced carbonised barley grains. Two small fragments of baked clay, two angular flint fragments and a bipolar flake were recovered from the bowl. Comparable kilns have been dated to the Early Bronze Age (Byrnes 2002, 7).
Compiled by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 6 February 2015
References
Byrnes, E. 2002 Archaeological Report, Flemingtown, Balbriggan (Licence 02E0296). Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Byrnes, E. 2002a Archaeological Report, Flemingtown, Balbriggan (Licence 02E0297). Unpublished report. National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
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