Category: Excavations

CORK COUNTY COUNCIL HERITAGE ASSET SURVEY Drombeg Stone Circle

8/12/2020

In 2014 Rubicon Heritage were commissioned by Cork County Council to undertake an audit of heritage assets owned by the County Council. The audit was intended to assess a wide variety of these properties by providing an overall background/description of the selected sites and identifying the main heritage characteristics and status/functionality of each. We have compiled a series of blogs based on the information gathered during the audit to highlight a number of the selected sites and the amazing archaeology in County Cork. This week we look at Drombeg Stone Circle.

An amusing ditch feature: recording of a ha-ha on the N25 Dunkettle Interchange Project

27/7/2020

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By John O’Connor

‘Navigate their way around the ha-ha, keep their distance from the ho-ho and completely ignore the he-he’ (Terry Pratchett – Snuff)

It’s not often that a quote from the works of Terry Pratchett comes to mind while recording a ditch, but this was the case as I looked at one of the more unusual features uncovered on the N25 Dunkettle Interchange Motorway Improvement Scheme, Co. Cork. These works, conducted by Rubicon Heritage Services Ltd. on behalf of Transport Infrastructure Ireland, included the recording of a suspected ha-ha ditch at Dunkettle House.

Sir Terry Pratchett - the UK's 'most shop-lifted author', who died in 2015. Sourced from https://www.barnesandnoble.com

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THE SHARP END OF THE STICK. WORKED WOOD FROM A BURNT MOUND IN CO. MAYO.

29/6/2020

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By Bruce Sutton
As part of works along the N26 Cloongullaun Bridge Realignment Scheme, Co. Mayo, Rubicon Heritage completed the excavation of a large intact burnt mound with two underlying wood lined troughs and associated features. The works were directed by Bruce Sutton, who led a small experienced team of four archaeologists. All works are managed by Mayo County Council National Roads Office and funded by Transport Infrastructure Ireland. Archaeological works were administered by the Project Archaeologist Richard Gillespie, who also completed the initial test-trenching which identified the site in 2019. Ongoing post-excavation works, based on dating, specialist analyses and research will help further interpret the site.

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