County: Dublin Site name: JAMESTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0456
Author: Niall Brady, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Linear earthwork
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 719794m, N 723552m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.248806, -6.204944
Ten trenches were investigated on the site of the proposed Waste Management Centre in Jamestown townland, Co. Dublin. The work was carried out to resolve some requirements of Dúchas before the issuing of an EPA licence for the centre.
Trenches 1–3 investigated sections of substantial field boundaries that run at right angles to the Pale Ditch earthwork on its northern side. Trench 1 revealed a flint thumb scraper in a disturbed context to the west of this field bank. A selection of late medieval and post-medieval potsherds was uncovered within the matrix of the bank material, indicating that the bank is of relatively recent origin. A field drain was observed in Trench 2. No archaeological material was observed in Trench 3.
Trenches 4 and 5 were across existing gaps in the Pale Ditch. These confirmed the survival of the Ditch below the gaps but did not produce objects of archaeological interest. A recent field drain cut into the north fosse in Trench 4.
The remaining Trenches 6-10 were opened c. 7–10m south of the Pale Ditch and ran parallel to it. No archaeological material was observed in these trenches.
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