County: Galway Site name: ANNAGHDOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E1034
Author: Richard Crumlish
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 528390m, N 738767m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.394197, -9.076663
Pre-development testing at the site of a proposed dwelling-house with septic tank at Annaghdown townland, Co. Galway, was carried out on 4 July 2003. The site was near the constraint around an archaeological complex to the south (SMR 69:1). The site was a field of pasture, located along the main road into Annaghdown.
Testing consisted of the excavation of four trenches, which measured 49.5m, 10m, 8.3m and 50.3m long, 0.75–1.5m wide and 0.35–0.9m deep, by machine. The stratigraphy was topsoil, above orange/brown friable sandy silt loam and grey friable sandy clay loam.
No artefacts were recovered. The friable sandy silt loam and the friable sandy clay loam were sterile natural subsoils. The evidence from all four trenches was of undisturbed natural stratigraphy.
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