County: Dublin Site name: LUSK
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0794
Author: Susan McCabe, Arch-Tech Ltd.
Site type: Pit-burial, Pit and Kiln
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 721606m, N 754494m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.526326, -6.165884
Monitoring of Phase 3 of a large-scale residential development took place north of the medieval town of Lusk (SMR 8:10) and within the boundary of the zone of archaeological potential as outlined in the Urban Archaeological Survey.
The landscape was low lying and poorly drained. In addition to several undiagnostic charcoal spreads and agricultural activity, three features of archaeological potential were identified. These were a subcircular pit containing charcoal-rich material and possible prehistoric pottery, a second, similar-sized pit and a possible figure-of-eight-shaped kiln.
Further details of these features are given in the excavation summary for the site (No. 628, Excavations 2002, 02E1398).
32 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2
