Excavation - miscellaneous

The National Monuments Service's description

Located on a flat, low-lying landscape with a small SE-NW stream immediately to the NE. Archaeological testing (09E0476) during 2009 on the route of the N5 Ballaghadereen bypass identified a shallow pit (dims 1.05m x 0.58m; D 0.14m) containing charcoal and burnt bone. It produced a C14 date of 20-220 AD and was set aside for resolution as Teevnacreeva 1 (Doyle 2010a, 11-12; 2012b). Further analysis concluded that the bone was animal, and further excavation found another pit (dims. 0.81 x 0.61m; D 0.16m) that contained only peaty silt (Kyle and Delaney 2011d; Kyle 2013c; Delaney et al. 2016, 86).

Compiled by: Michael Moore.

Date of upload: 10 February, 2012

References

Doyle, T. 2010a N5 Ballaghadereen bypass road scheme, Co. Roscommon. Report on archaeological test trenching of areas G-P. Headland Archaeology. Unpublished report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Licence no. 09E0476.

Doyle, T. 2012b Areas G-P, Ballaghaderreen bypass: testing. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2009: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 180, No. 688. Dublin. Wordwell.

Kyle, J. and Delaney, S. 2011d N5 Ballaghaderreen bypass. Teevnacreeva 1, Iron Age pits. Final report. Irish Archaeological Consultancy. Unpublished report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Licence no. 10E0306.

Kyle, J. 2013c Teevnacreeva 1: Iron Age pits. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2010: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 184, No. 583. Dublin. Wordwell.

Delaney, S., J. Kyle and D. Bayley 2016 Working the margin. The archaeology of the N5 Ballaghaderreen Bypass road project. Journal of the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society, vol. 13, 81-7.