County: Dublin Site name: BALROTHERY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0404 ext.
Author: Ken Wiggins, Judith Carroll & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 720035m, N 761070m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.585750, -6.187051
The construction of a number of houses was proposed for the site, which measured 45m east–west by 38m. It was adjacent to a highly significant multi-ditched enclosure excavated by Judith Carroll at Rosepark, Balrothery ( Excavations 2001, No. 334, 99E0155). The area was tested in May 2003 by Judith Carroll. The trial-trenches revealed some material of archaeological potential, as a result of which it was recommended that the whole site be fully excavated prior to development.
Excavations took place between 7 and 23 July 2003. A few outlying features in the southern half of the site, possible post-holes or small pits, may be contemporary with one or more of the Early Christian/early medieval phases of the stratigraphy for the Rosepark hilltop enclosure. However, the majority of the excavated features in the northern half of the site, mainly linear ditches/gullies or furrows, were related to agricultural practices of relatively recent origin and were of no archaeological interest.
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