County: Wicklow Site name: TEMPLECARRIG LOWER
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0227
Author: Ines Hagen, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Burnt spread
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 728239m, N 713726m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.158576, -6.082418
An excavation was carried out at a proposed residential development at Templecarrig Lower, Greystones, Co. Wicklow. The site was revealed in July 2001 during test excavations carried out by Ed O’Donovan (Excavations 2001, No. 1379, 01E0616). Full excavation of the site took place on 19 and 20 August 2002.
The site, uncovered below 0.25m of cultivated ploughsoil, was the truncated remains of an isolated charcoal spread, which overlay the natural, yellow/brown, gravelly boulder clay. It was subrectangular, measuring 1.4m (east–west) by 0.8m, and was 0.12m deep. Although some small burnt stones were present in the charcoal-rich, dark brown, sandy clay and a small patch of burnt soil (0.1m by 0.08m) was found to underlie the feature, the evidence suggests that this material was dumped at this location. No finds were retrieved from this deposit. The spread was disturbed by a series of modern plough furrows, which ran north-north-west/ south-south-east across the feature.
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