County: Laois Site name: OLDGLASS
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A015/19
Author: Ed Danaher, for Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Pit, Burnt spread, Burnt mound and Cremation pit
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 634642m, N 678821m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.859193, -7.485587
An assessment was carried out in advance of the proposed M7 Portlaoise–Castletown/M8 Portlaoise–Cullahill motorway scheme between February and June 2005. The work was carried out in March 2005 on behalf of Laois County Council and the National Roads Authority. The section described in this report is Testing Area 7 of Contract 1. Contract 1 of the project incorporated the Portlaoise–Cullahill section of the scheme, consisting of c. 14km of motorway, which extends from Aghaboe to south of Cullahill through the townlands from Gortnaclea to Oldtown. Testing Area 7 was located in the townland of Oldglass, between Chainage 16500 and 16800 of the proposed scheme. The assessment methodology generally consisted of mechanically excavating a 2.15m-wide test-trench along the centre-line, with perpendicular offset trenches extending to the edge of the land-take. One archaeological site was identified in the area.
Oldglass 2 consisted of a number of discrete areas of activity located across Field 79A and contained the following features: three pits containing burnt-mound material; a spread of burnt-mound material and a circular pit and a possible cremation pit and spread of burnt-mound material.
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