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The National Monuments Service's description

On a low rise in relatively flat pastureland. Excavated in 2008 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3851). Three subcircular troughs and associated post-holes. A number of smaller post-holes and stake-holes to the S may have formed a fence or windbreak. A small slot-trench and post-holes to the E of the troughs may represent a related temporary structure. A sample of ash charcoal from the fill of one trough yielded a radiocarbon date of 2033-1914 cal BC (UBA-12235). A cereal-drying kiln (KK016-016----) c. 30m to the NW and a number of pits and hearths represent a later phase of activity. (Kyle 2010, 249, no. 944; Kyle and Coughlan 2012)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 11 December 2013

References

Kyle, J. 2010 AR120, Jordanstown. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 249, no. 944. Bray. Wordwell.

Kyle, J. and Coughlan, T. 2012 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme: Phase 4 - Knocktopher to Powerstown. Ministerial Direction: A032. Site name: AR120, Jordanstown 2. Registration No. E3851. Final report. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.