County: Galway Site name: NEWFORD (Site 2.1)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A024/2
Author: Tom Janes, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Habitation site and Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 549039m, N 726764m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.288740, -8.764296
This site had previously been highlighted as an area of higher archaeological potential based on the results of geophysical survey. Test-trenching of the specified area exposed two previously unidentified archaeological sites. The first of these (Area A) consisted of a spread of post- and stake-holes which formed no discernible pattern and which was associated with a number of burnt spreads. This is likely to represent the remains of a prehistoric settlement site. The second site (Area B) was identified as the plough-truncated remains of a burnt mound.
The work was commissioned by the Galway County Council National Roads Design Office and sponsored by the National Roads Authority.
Unit 1, IDA Industrial Estate, Wallingstown, Little Island, Co. Cork
