County: Wicklow Site name: GILTSPUR, BRAY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 8:5 Licence number: 04E1201
Author: Abi Cryerhall, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd, 27 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
Site type: Monitoring
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 725275m, N 716108m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.180678, -6.125773
During the summer of 2004 monitoring took place of a large-scale retail development off Giltspur Lane in Bray, Co. Wicklow. The development encroached on the zone of archaeological potential around a tree ring enclosing a centrally located large granite boulder. The date of this monument is not certain.
Monitoring of topsoil removal uncovered no archaeological features in the field containing the monument. However, in the adjacent field an archaeological site consisting of a structure, kiln, ditch, linear trench and outlying pits was uncovered. This site was excavated by the writer under licence 04E1324 (No. 1853 below).
