County: Dublin Site name: BELINSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0545
Author: Patricia Lynch, , for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 719353m, N 748468m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.472710, -6.202147
The site was defined, from aerial photographs and outline plans, as a complex of features including enclosures and field systems. The possible locations of the features were in two almost-flat fields (Fields 1 and 2) separated by a wide ditch and hedge. Three cuttings were located in Field 1, the fourth in Field 2. All were hand-dug and measured 4m x 2m.
Cutting 1 was located in the centre of the field, 151m from the hedge, at the base of a low sloping hill. The topsoil measured 0.35m and overlay the natural subsoil. The cutting contained a root mark and a natural depression to the east. No features of archaeological significance were uncovered.
Cutting 2 was located 86m from the hedge and 60m to the south of Cutting 1. The topsoil was 0.47m deep and overlay the natural subsoil. The cutting contained a cropmark that was 1.1–0.75m wide, 4m long and 0.05m deep. No features of archaeological significance were uncovered.
Cutting 3 was located 27m from the hedge and 122.5m to the south of Cutting 1. The topsoil was 0.55m deep and overlay the natural subsoil. The cutting contained two cropmarks. No features of archaeological significance were uncovered.
Cutting 4, in Field 2, was located 31.5m to the south of the hedge and 182m to the south of Cutting 1. The topsoil was 0.55–0.6m deep and overlay the natural subsoil. No features of archaeological significance were uncovered.
Editor’s note: The summary of this excavation, which was carried out during 1999, arrived too late for publication in the bulletin of that year.
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