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Excavations.ie

2025:058 - Walterstown and Coonmore, Wicklow

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Wicklow

Site name: Walterstown and Coonmore

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 25E0237

Author: Yvonne Whitty

Site type: Cremation burials

Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)

ITM: E 697401m, N 704016m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.077863, -6.546304

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A total of 1251m of test trenches were excavated under archaeological supervision on 24 and 25 March 2025 in the townlands of Walterstown and Coonmore, Hollywood, Co. Wicklow. Three cremation pits, which contained abundant burnt bone, were uncovered and a potential fourth burial was also uncovered.  One of the pits, which was wheel-rut damaged from farming activities, appeared to be very shallow, 0.01m in depth. The cremation burials were clustered in groups of two encompassing an area 5.2m north to south by 1.1m.