Excavation - miscellaneous

The National Monuments Service's description

In field 150m N of the Groody River now occupied by the Ballysimon Roundabout. The archaeological site (LI005-102----) includes four separate areas of archaeological activity investigated in a ploughed field (‘Field 3’) in advance of the construction of the Limerick Southern Ring Road (Coyne & Hayes 2001). The site covers a large area (dims. 240m N-S and 200m E-W).
The excavated features include; a pit (3:66); pits and postholes (3:339); two pits (3:425); and surface complex of postholes (3:447). The features contained charcoal and included deposits of burnt clay. No artefacts were recovered from the excavated pits and post-holes. Surface finds from the topsoil included a dispersed flint scatter of worked flint and chert, and a Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age barbed a tanged arrowhead. The identification of the prehistoric flint suggests an early prehistoric date for the excavated features. No function has been ascribed to the excavated material by the excavator.

Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 23 July 2020

References

Coyne, F. and Hayes, A. 2001 Interim Report 2 on Archaeological Test Trenching of potential archaeological sites found during pre-construction ploughing of the proposed Limerick Southern Ring Road, Contract 1. Unpublished report (Licences Nos. 01E0449, 00E0849, 00E0850, 00E0851 & 00E0854) submitted by Aegis Archaeology Ltd. on behalf of Limerick City Council to the National Monuments Service, Dúchas.