House - Neolithic

The National Monuments Service's description

This habitation site is part of Eogan's Phase 1 Earlier 'Western' Neolithic Complex - Zone B (Eogan and Roche 1997, 17-20), which is provided with a start date of 3725-3635 cal. BC and an end date of 3650-3565 cal. BC or a round date of c. 3700-3550 cal. BC with the aid of Bayesian analysis (Eogan and Cleary 2017, 39-40; Schulting et al. 2017a). Earlier Western Neolithic material was found in four areas N and E of the great mound, Tomb 1C, and running beneath it. Zone B (dims 26m x 20m) is located outside the entrance to the E tomb. It contained sections of 4 slot-trenches (4-7) which may represent the foundations for at least one house. Trenches 4 and 5 were c. 5m apart with the remains of a hearth between them and they were partly under the mound of Tomb 1C. The area produced sherds of at least two vessels of Western Neolithic type and flints, including a leaf-shaped arrowhead. A sample of charcoal returned a radiocarbon date of 5345+- 20 bp (4324-4045 cal. BC). (Eogan and Roche 1997, 7, 17-21)

True location: ITM (699657, 773433)

Date of upload: 06 November 2013
Amended: 16 September 2020

See attached plans:
_1 Cemetery plan from Knowth 6, Fig. 2:1
_2 from Knowth 2, Fig. 3

References

Eogan, G. and Roche, H. 1997 Excavations at Knowth 2. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy Monographs in Archaeology.

Eogan, G. and Cleary, K. 2017 Excavations at Knowth 6: The Passage Tomb Archaeology of the Great Mound at Knowth. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin

Schulting, R., Bronk Ramsey, C., Reider, P, Eogan, G., Cleary, K., Cooney, G. and A. Sheridan 2017 Dating the Human Remains at Knowth, in Eogan 2017, 331-85.