County: Dublin Site name: CARRICKMINES GREAT (Site 63)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0700
Author: Gary Conboy, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Prehistoric site - lithic scatter
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 720810m, N 724405m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.256235, -6.189401
This site was discovered during monitoring of the South-Eastern Motorway. It consisted of a number of pits, post-holes and a central hearth. Some 20m to the east of this site a number of Bronze Age houses were discovered during monitoring, and this site belongs to the same time period. Although the pits and post-holes are concentrated in a relatively small area, they do not appear to be the remains of a house structure.
Almost 1400 pieces of struck or worked flint were discovered, as well as pottery that has been dated to the Early Bronze Age. Burnt and unburnt artefacts were found in all of the features on the site and in the various spreads that covered the site. Most of the worked flint took the form of scrapers. The site was an area of intensive flint knapping, and it seems logical that it is associated with the nearby settlement.
98 Watson Park, Killiney, Co. Dublin
