County: Dublin Site name: LISSENHALL GREAT (Site 5)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0546
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 as a possible enclosure from aerial photographs. The possible location of the feature was on the top of an east–west-facing low ridge. Because the field had been ploughed it was not possible to identify the feature above ground. Only about one-third of the feature was to have been affected by the road construction. During the investigation three hand-dug cuttings were opened.
Cutting 1, on the north-western slope of the ridge, measured 4m x 2m. The topsoil measured 0.37m and overlay subsoil. Two patches of modern lime were cut into the natural. The cutting contained nothing of archaeological significance. Cutting 2, on the top of the ridge 7m to the east of Cutting 1, measured 8m x 2m and contained nothing of archaeological significance. Cutting 3, located 6.5m to the east of Cutting 2 on the south-eastern slope of the ridge, measured 4m x 2m and contained nothing of archaeological significance.
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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