2007:451 - CORBALLIS, Dublin

Testing was carried out at the site of a proposed residential development at Corballis, Donabate, Co. Dublin, over seven days between 2 and 7 August and 29 August to 3 September 2007. This testing follows a desktop study, walkover survey and geophysical survey carried out as part of the Donabate Local Area Plan. It also follows a programme of carried out by Christine Baker of Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd in January 2006 (Excavations 2006, No. 562, 06E0027). This phase of testing was targeted at various anomalies indicated in the geophysical survey. As a result of the eleven test-trenches excavated across these anomalies, a total of four sites were identified.

Two large enclosures indicated in the geophysical survey were targeted and the presence of ditches was confirmed in the test-trenches at both enclosure sites; the fills indicate that they are both of archaeological significance. A fragment of a copper-alloy object recovered from one of the ditch fills in the west enclosure may indicate a date in the early medieval period.

The remains of two burnt mounds typical of the second millennium bc were also identified.