County: Wicklow Site name: RATH EAST
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0495
Author: Una Cosgrave, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 689691m, N 672977m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.800329, -6.669916
Pre-development archaeological testing was carried out on this site, which is adjacent to Rathgall Hillfort (SMR 37:16) and is within 15m of a known hut site, Knockeen Enclosure (SMR 37:19). Potentially archaeologically significant deposits were identified in three of the eleven trenches. These deposits took the form of infrequent charcoal flecking at the base of F2, a mid-brown, sandy loam. No datable material was recovered from this deposit. The deposit rested on natural subsoils.
The pre-development surface-stripping was subsequently monitored, and nothing of archaeological significance was identified.
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