2005:636 - NEWFORD (Site 2.1), Galway
County: Galway
Site name: NEWFORD (Site 2.1)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: A024/2
Author: Tom Janes, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 1, IDA Industrial Estate, Wallingstown, Little Island, Co. Cork
Site type: Habitation site and Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 549039m, N 726764m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.288740, -8.764296
This site had previously been highlighted as an area of higher archaeological potential based on the results of geophysical survey. Test-trenching of the specified area exposed two previously unidentified archaeological sites. The first of these (Area A) consisted of a spread of post- and stake-holes which formed no discernible pattern and which was associated with a number of burnt spreads. This is likely to represent the remains of a prehistoric settlement site. The second site (Area B) was identified as the plough-truncated remains of a burnt mound.
The work was commissioned by the Galway County Council National Roads Design Office and sponsored by the National Roads Authority.