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Neolithic and Beaker Features, Middle Bronze Age Structures and Iron Age Industrial Activity at Ballynamona, Co. Cork

May, 2011 · Written by: Eachtra

This entry is part 13 of 37 in the Issue 10

Archaeological Excavation Report

Neolithic and Beaker Features, Middle Bronze Age Structures and Iron Age Industrial Activity

The archaeology from Ballynamona 2 included a large amount of activity that dated from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age/early medieval period. It is likely that the excavation at Ballynamona 2 only identified a small portion of the settlement evidence at this site, and that there is more archaeological material to the north of the structures, outside the area of the road take.
There was evidence for several phases of occupation, including evidence from the Early Neolithic, the Late Neolithic, Beaker/Chalcolithic period, the Middle Bronze Age, the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Sometimes this evidence was artefactual (in particular pottery and lithics) but radiocarbon dating also suggested that Middle Bronze Age settlement was extensive, with less widespread evidence for some industrial activity in the Iron Age.