County: Kildare Site name: RUSSELLSTOWN (Site 9)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A021/014
Author: Brendon Wilkins, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Neolithic (4000BC-2501 BC)
ITM: E 678253m, N 678878m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.855133, -6.838075
This site was identified during testing of Area 1 of Archaeological Services Contract 3, N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme: Kilcullen to Powerstown (A021/001). Area 1 ran from Prumplestown Lower to Russellstown townlands. Test-trenches totalling c. 19000 linear metres were excavated within Area 1 and nine areas of archaeological significance were identified (Sites 1–10; A021/006–015, Excavations 2005, Nos 729–31, 733, 738–41 and 785–6).
A number of unstratified flint and chert artefacts, including flakes, scrapers and a leaf-shaped arrowhead were recovered from the topsoil in Field 25. One other flint flake was also recovered from a post-hole associated with a number of small pits and a linear feature. Artefactual evidence, although recovered from a secondary context, indicates a significant Late Neolithic presence and the site will be excavated in full.
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