County: Wicklow Site name: KILMARTIN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0754
Author: Tim Coughlan, IAC Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 728456m, N 701211m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.046108, -6.084180
Testing was undertaken at Kilmartin, Co. Wicklow, on the site of a proposed borrow pit (Borrow Pit 9.1) associated with the new N11 Road Scheme, from 22 to 24 May 2002. This was carried out using a mechanical digger fitted with a flat, toothless bucket. Four trenches were excavated, with twenty branches at right angles to the main trenches.
Material of probable archaeological significance was recorded in three trenches. The locations of the potential archaeological deposits suggest a density of archaeological material along the south and west of the proposed site. Trench 2, in the west of the site, produced datable evidence (pottery) that may be medieval but is possibly Bronze Age. The fact that identical pottery was found 76m apart in this trench suggested that the material may be associated with quite an extensive site. The clustering of the archaeological deposits in the trenches also suggested that there may be further significant clusters of deposits outside the area of the present test-trenches. Pits (post-pits?) in Trench 2e and post-holes and a linear cut in the south of Trench 1 may indicate large enclosures. The material in Trench 3, while also varied, may represent lesser, localised activity but also has further archaeological potential.
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