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This final report presents the results of archaeological investigations carried out on behalf of Kildare County Council as part of Archaeological Services Contract No. 4 ? Resolution, Prumplestown to Powerstown, prior to the commencement of construction on this section of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme: Kilcullen to Powerstown. The work was undertaken under National Monuments Section Registration Number E2584 in the Townland of Busherstown, Co. Carlow. The Minister for the Environment, Heritage & Local Government, following consultation with the National Museum of Ireland, directed that Áine Richardson of Headland Archaeology Ltd should proceed with archaeological resolution. Full archaeological resolution was conducted on this site with machine stripping beginning on 21 February and full excavation finishing on 10 March 2006. The excavation team comprised a director, a supervisor and twelve site assistants. This site was dominated by the surviving portion of a ploughed?out middle Bronze Age burnt mound and associated trough. This activity was possibly associated with several pits, one of which also dated to the middle Bronze Age, as well as adjacent stake and postholes. A late Bronze Age/Iron Age well was cut through the burnt mound deposits. Recent land improvement drains were cut, often in parallel lines, across the site. Intensive agricultural practices had also truncated many of the features and eroded the burnt mound. Archaeological testing carried out under Archaeological Services Contract, Test Excavations Contract No. 3 ? Test Excavations, Prumplestown to Powerstown under Ministerial Direction Number A021/026 on this site in 2005 identified a large, low?profile burnt mound (2073) Burnt mound material was initially picked up in herring bone off?set trench T38. To establish the extent of the burnt mound, four north/south additional trenches (T38 a?d) were mechanically excavated. The eastern fringe of the burnt mound was also exposed in off?set trench T39. The testing dimensions of this material were 14.9 m east/west by 10.5 m, with a depth of 0.37 m. A curvilinear ditch (2074) was identified in the centre line trench and off?set trench T40, about 20 m south of the burnt mound. Two fragments of worked flint, which re?fitted together, were recovered from the fill (2075) of this ditch. The high total of context numbers issued during resolution does not accurately reflect the sum of features and deposits investigated. Context identification tags nailed in position on site were removed over night by curious crows. This constant annoyance resulted in many features being re?numbered (occasionally, more than once). In addition, multiple sections were cut through the body of the burnt mound with each deposit?exposure also frequently issued with a new context number. The main burnt mound horizons were thus recorded using several separate numerical sequences. This differentiation was arbitrary and had no archaeological significance. Co?ordination of the section drawings and deposit descriptions during post?excavation collated them into a single, comprehensive set of deposits which will be described here.