Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Dunbell Big, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunbell Big
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.61804, -7.17806
- SMR number
- KK024-010005-
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Shown on 4 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
Between September 1990 and January 1991 remote sensing and trial trenching was carried out at a ringfort (KK024-010001-) in Dunbell Big (Cassidy 1990, 38-9; Cassidy 1991, 18-20). A pit-burial was uncovered under the S wall of an early medieval house (KK024-010006-) (Cassidy 1991, 20). According to Cassidy (1991, 20), ‘The pit was filled with rubble which showed signs of burning and at its bottom was a badly crushed Bronze Age Food Vessel containing and surrounded by burnt bone…it would appear to belong to the period c. 2000-1500 BC…the vessel was decorated with unusual vertically applied stripped decoration’. A cist burial (KK024-010008-) was uncovered 0.4m to the S (ibid.).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 9 November 2021
References
Cassidy, B. 1991 Dunbell ringfort No. 5, Dunbell Big. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1990: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 38-9. Bray. Wordwell.
Cassidy, B. 1991 Digging at Dunbell Big. Archaeology Ireland 5, no. 2, 18-20.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.