County: Kildare Site name: KILLICKAWEENY (Site 104)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0138
Author: Shane Delaney, IAC Ltd.
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 683837m, N 740289m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.406074, -6.739130
Site-specific testing of specific and anomalous features of archaeological potential along the route of the proposed M4 Kinnegad–Enfield–Kilcock Scheme (Contract 3) was recommended in the environmental impact statement. Site 104 at Killickaweeny was recorded as a low-visibility semicircular earthwork, possibly the remnants of a circular enclosure. According to the environmental impact statement, it measured c. 24m east–west by 15m and possibly retained a shallow external ditch, c. 3m wide and 0.3m deep. The field inspection failed to reveal any obvious features in the internal area.
Test-trenches focused on the earthwork anomalies. All were revealed to be the remains of field drains and ploughed-out field boundaries and of no archaeological significance.
Two features of significance were revealed at the northern side of Site 104 as part of the general testing strategy. One was a small linear feature oriented north-west/south-east, 1.1m long and 0.4m deep. The second feature was a small rounded pit, 0.35m in diameter and 0.2m deep. Both features contained charcoal, but no datable artefacts were retrieved. These features were reported on in the linear testing stratigraphic report by Dermot Nelis (No. 908, Excavations 2002, 02E0141).
Additional test-trenches were randomly excavated across the site, revealing topsoil over natural geology for an average depth of c. 0.4m. Apart from the two features mentioned above, nothing of archaeological significance was recorded.
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