County: Cork Site name: GLANWORTH: Mill Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 27:42/01 Licence number: 00E0820
Author: Sheila Lane
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 575516m, N 604116m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.188297, -8.358073
Two test-trenches were opened using a mechanical digger at this development site, which is located c. 150m to the west of and in the field adjacent to Glanworth Castle, on 9 November 2000. The field slopes downhill from the rear (east) to the street front (west). It is proposed to build a terrace of houses fronting onto the street.
The trenches were laid on the footprint for the proposed houses. Trench 1 was just inside the site wall, almost on the street front, and Trench 2 was parallel to this and c. 10m further north.
In Trench 1 sod (0.2m deep) overlay topsoil (0.7m deep). This lay on boulder clay. At the eastern end of the trench rubble was noted to a depth of 1.3m, resting on boulder clay. This was the rear garden area of a demolished dwelling-house shown on the site map. At a distance of 7.4m from the eastern end of the trench a narrow band of burnt material lay on the boulder clay. The level consisted of red and black burnt laminated layers interspersed with slag, and it varied from 0.25m to 0.1m in thickness. This spread for a distance of c. 7m along the trench and was visible in the entire width of the trench. An offshoot trench running south from the south side of this trench revealed that the level spread 2.3m in this direction.
1 Charlemont Heights, Coach Hill, Rochestown, Co. Cork
