County: Waterford Site name: BUTLERSTOWN NORTH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E0311
Author: Colm Moloney, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 655764m, N 610293m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.241542, -7.183479
Test excavation was undertaken in advance of the proposed development of this site as a private hospital. Sixteen trenches were mechanically excavated across the site.
Prior to testing, a walkover survey and desk assessment was undertaken, which highlighted an earthwork at the north-west corner of the site as the location of a possible burnt mound. Testing of this earthwork indicated that it was a natural knoll. No archaeological features or deposits were recovered from test-trenches excavated across the remainder of the site. The occurrence of blue reduced clay covered with a thin layer of peat in the central area of the site would suggest that, prior to improvement, the site held a body of standing water, possibly a small lake or marsh.
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