County: Dublin Site name: THE GRANGE, Donaghmede
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E1496
Author: Ellen OCarroll, The Archaeology Company
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 722524m, N 740724m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.402430, -6.157416
Testing took place at Grange Road, Donaghmede, Co. Dublin. The client was developing an area of 133 acres for a large mixed-use and residential development. The site contains two recorded monuments, cropmarks SMR 15:63 and 15:64, and the site of a lodge house, Grange Lodge (see No. 486, Excavations 2003, 03E1345). This licence relates to the testing at the site of the cropmarks.
Nine trenches were excavated on the site of the monument. No trace of any features relating to the enclosure indicated by a cropmark on aerial photographs was found. The remains of a small prehistoric burnt-mound feature were uncovered in Trenches 5 and 6. It measured 0.68m north–south by 0.82m and consisted of a deposit of heat-shattered stone in a very dark grey clay, with small stones and fine pebbles (mostly sandstone). This deposit sat in dark greyish-brown clay with charcoal. This site was to be directly impacted upon by the development and further mitigation in the form of excavation was recommended.
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