County: Dublin Site name: LUSK
Sites and Monuments Record No.: RMP 8:10 Licence number: 01E1002
Author: Christine Baker, Arch-Tech Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 721606m, N 754494m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.526326, -6.165884
The area tested is located to the north-east of the outer limit of the village. It extends from the field immediately adjacent to the Skerries road eastwards across farmland. The total number of trenches opened by machine was 25. The stratigraphy of the site was relatively consistent across the areas tested. Topsoil, a mid-brown friable silty clay (average depth 0.38m), overlay a yellow-grey stony subsoil. Twelve features were identified, including a relict field boundary. Those features identified in Field 4 (adjacent to the Skerries road) were consistent with limited 18th- and 19th-century use and included drainage ditches and probable lazy-bed cultivation. The use of this area for agriculture over an extensive period can be traced from the cartographic evidence. The lack of structural and artefactual evidence recovered during this test-trenching programme reflects such agricultural use.
32 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2
