County: Dublin Site name: QUARRYVALE, Palmerstown Upper
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 96E0178 ext.
Author: O. Scully with C. Kelleher and C. Gleeson
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 707146m, N 734872m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.353197, -6.390550
In June 1998 further topsoil removal was monitored, the initial work having been carried out during 1996 (Excavations 1996, 37).
An area of burning was identified, and subsequently an area 2m x 5m was excavated. Although the feature had been disturbed by deep ploughing, prehistoric pottery (one sherd of decorated, coarse Beaker ware and one sherd of either undecorated Beaker ware or Late Bronze Age coarseware (R.M. Cleary, pers. comm.)) and a flint flake were found. These early finds were associated with modern pottery as a result of the ploughing.
The discovery of evidence of prehistoric occupation, albeit limited, shows the value of on-going monitoring on a site that has already had four phases of topsoil clearance with negligible results.
7 Bayview, Tramore, Co. Waterford
