Excavation - miscellaneous

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a gentle S-facing slope. Identified in centre-line testing (10E0299) in Area 7 of the N5 Ballaghaderreen bypass as a spread of burnt material with charcoal (diam. 1.2m; max. D 0.25m) filled with a charcoal-rich silty clay, which was set aside for further work as Toobrackan 3, (Janes and Delaney 2010b, 8). It was subsequently completely excavated (10E0382) as a single oval pit (dims. 1.4m x 1.2m; D 0.2m) with steep sides cut into the sandy clay subsoil and contained a sandy clay with heat-shattered stone and charcoal. A fragment of ash produced a C14 date of cal. AD 1048-1218, and it is interpreted as a cooking pit. (Kyle and Delaney 2011i; Kyle 2013e)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

date of upload: 15 February, 2012

References

Kyle, J. and Delaney, S. 2011i N5 Ballaghaderreen bypass. Toobrackan 3. Medieval pit. Final report. Irish Archaeological Consultancy. Unpublished report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Licence no. 10E0382.

Janes, T. and Delaney, S. 2010b N5 Ballaghaderreen bypass. Townlands: Coolaghtane, Ballyoughter and Toobrackan, Co. Roscommon. Irish Archaeological Consultancy. Unpublished report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Licence no. 10E0299.

Kyle, J. 2013e Toobrackan 3: possible cooking pit. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2010: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 185, No. 586. Dublin. Wordwell.