County: Dublin Site name: NEWTOWN-CORDUFF
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E1124
Author: John Channing, for V.J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Causewayed enclosure
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 718870m, N 753910m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.521699, -6.207355
The site was uncovered during monitoring of the new Airport–Balbriggan motorway. Excavation commenced in mid-November and continued to late February 2002. The site consisted of a causewayed ditch forming a half-circle. A causeway/entrance to the east provided evidence of nine post-holes forming a possible funnel-shaped avenue leading out from the ditch feature. A small rectangular structure formed by six post-holes was located within the line of the ditch.
The ditch had been deliberately backfilled in antiquity and may have originally extended to a full circle. Finds from the ditch fill include animal bone, burnt bone, and several sherds of very decayed pottery. Finds from modern drain fills that criss-crossed the site include a leaf-shaped arrowhead, with a second located on the subsoil surface nearby.
Stratford-on-Slaney, Co. Wicklow
