County: Kildare Site name: KILL (Site 17)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0165
Author: Thaddeus C. Breen, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 664557m, N 709858m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.135344, -7.035214
An aerial survey in advance of the M7 Heath–Mayfield Motorway Scheme revealed a circular cropmark in a flat, low-lying, marshy field near Monasterevin Bog. As it lay directly on the line of the proposed road, a test excavation was carried out. Two trenches, 50m long by 2m wide, in a cruciform arrangement, were excavated by machine. These showed that the area consisted of a layer of peat, on average 0.5m thick, overlying white to grey marl. There were no traces of human activity.
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