2022:699 - CROSSHAVEN: Church Bay Road, Cork
County: Cork
Site name: CROSSHAVEN: Church Bay Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 22E0223
Author: Avril Purcell, Lane Purcell Archaeology
Author/Organisation Address: 64 Fr Mathew Rd, Turner's Cross, Cork
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 580026m, N 560902m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.800033, -8.289599
Twenty five trenches were mechanically across the site of a proposed residential development. Archaeological deposits were identified extending across and within the area of a sub-rectangular enclosure previously identified in a geophysical survey.
Additional small-scale features were found extending to the west, north and southwest of the enclosure suggesting the presence of pits, hearths, post-holes and a possible sub-circular structure. Prehistoric pottery, possibly of Bronze Age date, was found in topsoil adjacent to a deposit. The sub-rectangular enclosure will be preserved in situ and the adjoining features preserved by record (excavated).