Ring-ditch

The National Monuments Service's description

On a gentle E-facing slope in flat pasture. Excavated in 2007/8 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3858). A central cremation pit within a double ring-ditch with two possible cremation pits to the S of the ring-ditch. The external ring-ditch (diam. 12m; D 1.04m) had sloping sides and a concave base and was filled with material that was probably from an adjacent fulacht fia (KK016-022----). The inner ring-ditch (diam. 5.6m; D 0.2m) was situated centrally and also contained heat-shattered stones. The pit located roughly in the centre had burnt bone inclusions in its primary fill, laid down over several sub-angular stones. The two pits to the S also contained burnt bone inclusions. (Wiersbicki 2009; 2010, 251-2, no. 954)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 8 January 2014

References

Wierzbicki, P. 2009 Preliminary Archaeological Resolution report. N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme: Phase 4B. Ministerial Direction: A032. Site name: AR127, Kellymount 5. Registration No. E3858. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.

Wierzbicki, P. 2010 AR127, Kellymount. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 251-2, no. 954. Dublin. Wordwell.