County: Dublin Site name: BALDOYLE AND SUTTON
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0403, 00E0404
Author: Stephen Reed, Judith Carroll & Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 723878m, N 739918m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.394867, -6.137386
An intertidal archaeological walkover survey and subsequent monitoring, commissioned by McMahon Design and Management Ltd, were undertaken on the landfall sites of a Transatlantic optic fibre cable on the foreshores at Baldoyle and Sutton. At Baldoyle (00E0404) the cable route ran in a north-easterly direction across the foreshore for a distance of 1.5km to the low-water mark, passing just to the south of Portmarnock Point, a sand spit, and out to sea, passing within 1km to the north of Ireland’s Eye. At Sutton (00E0403) the cable route ran south-west across the foreshore for a distance of 500m to the low-water mark. At both landfall sites the cable was buried at a maximum depth of 1.2m, fed into a slit-trench cut by a cable-laying ‘plough’ dragged out from the foreshore by a ship moored out to sea. Prior to the cable-laying, the cable route was walked down to the low tide mark to identify any potential archaeological deposits; in addition a metal-detector was utilised to scan the route for the recovery of artefacts. Pipe-laying was subject to monitoring for the identification of archaeological strata disturbed by the ‘plough’ and for the recovery of artefacts.
No archaeological features or strata were recorded during the walkover survey or during the monitoring of the cable-laying. Artefacts recovered with aid of the metal-detector were all modern, consisting of cans, ring-pulls and car parts.
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