2002:0670 - ROGANSTOWN, Dublin

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Dublin Site name: ROGANSTOWN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0771

Author: Goorik Dehaene, for Arch-Tech Ltd.

Site type: Fulacht fia

Period/Dating: Undetermined

ITM: E 714559m, N 749507m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.483114, -6.273944

The site was identified during monitoring of groundworks (No. 668, Excavations 2002 02E0408). An irregularly shaped burnt spread, 3.6m wide, was exposed. The burnt spread continued beyond the limit of the excavation to the north into areas that would not be disturbed by the development. The exposed length of the feature was 5.6m. The burnt spread comprised fire-cracked limestone and sandstone in association with charred or charcoal-stained silts. No artefacts were recovered from this feature.

70 The Square, Riverbank, Drogheda, Co. Louth