Excavation - miscellaneous

The National Monuments Service's description

This record is for a number of features of varying dates excavated in advance of the N9/N10 Waterford to Knocktopher road improvement scheme ( Excavation licence number: E2501, Area 10). The remains at the S end of the cutting comprised 8 small pits and a keyhole-shaped corn-drying kiln (in which a Neolithic slate bead was found). At the NE end were two other kilns and 19 pits (one of which produced a possible D-ware sherd) surrounded by 7 burnt pits and the truncated basal slag pit for an Early Medieval smelting furnace. (Wren 2009, 252-3, no. 993; Wren 2010)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 28 August 2013

References

Wren, J. 2010 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme: Waterford to Knocktopher – Phase 2, Archaeological Resolution, Final Report E2501, Site A032/000, Ballykeoghan Townland, Co. Kilkenny. Unpublished excavation report submitted to the Heritage and Planning Division, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.

Wren, J. 2009 Ballykeoghan. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 252-3 (No. 993). Bray. Wordwell.