County: Wicklow Site name: BRAY: Putland Road, Newcourt
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0084
Author: Richard Clutterbuck, Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 726980m, N 717751m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.195032, -6.099630
Monitoring of groundworks, including soil-stripping and the excavation of service trenches, was carried out between 25 January and 2 April 2001 at a ten-acre residential development on Putland Road, Newcourt, Bray, Co. Wicklow. The development site consisted of a north-facing field and a former playing-pitch of the Presentation College, c. 1.5km south of the centre of Bray town.
Monitoring of the site revealed significant disturbance from the 19th century resulting from landscaping and drainage of gardens and playing-pitches in front of the school, the laying of sewerage pipes, the redeposition of soil from adjacent building sites, and ploughing for potato cultivation. Twenty-six flints and sherds of 19th- and 20th-century pottery were recovered from the topsoil over the general development area. More concentrated areas of worked flint and flint nodules were found to be associated with two previously unrecorded archaeological sites. Both were excavated under separate licences (see Nos 1345 and 1346, Excavations 2001, 01E0198 and 01E0252) and were found to be prehistoric. No further archaeological features were disturbed during the course of the groundworks for the development.
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