County: Wicklow Site name: KILMURRY NORTH 1
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E1076
Author: Matt Mossop, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Burnt spread
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 725197m, N 713515m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.157405, -6.127951
Monitoring of the N11 road improvement scheme, which runs between Kilmacanogue village and the southern end of Glen of the Downs, indicated the survival of archaeological features. These were subsequently excavated under licence.
Cleaning of the site revealed a spread of charcoal-stained clay with high concentrations of heat-cracked stone. This deposit extended for some 12m by 3m within the site bounds but extended beyond the boundary to the south and west, where the deposit remains undisturbed. It had a maximum depth of 0.25m. Underlying this deposit and extending beyond the site bounds to the west were a gully, running c. 6m north–south, and an oval pit (c. 1m by c. 0.7m with a depth of c. 0.25m). The deposit and features are probably associated with a fulacht fiadh, the trough of which could be situated further to the west and remains undisturbed.
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