2005:1706 - KILPEDDER EAST/DRUMMIN EAST/BROMLEY, Wicklow

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Wicklow Site name: KILPEDDER EAST/DRUMMIN EAST/BROMLEY

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E0128

Author: Kenneth Wiggins and Yvonne Whitty, for Judith Carroll & Company Ltd, 13 Anglesea Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.

Site type: Monitoring

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 727409m, N 709032m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.116607, -6.096689

Monitoring and excavation on the Greystones Southern Access Route (GSAR) (before the GSAR Links was added in 2005), first took place between January and April 2004 (Excavations 2004, No. 1863). The 2.4m stretch of roadway yielded twenty sites, including a Bronze Age ring-ditch that yielded five funerary urns accompanied by cremations and also a site of probable cereal-drying activity with a large quantity of medieval pottery.
GSAR Links is the section of road linking the GSAR with the N11 and this was constructed and monitored in 2005. For this, an extension to the licence was granted to Kenneth Wiggins in May of 2005. Trial testing and excavation of a number of features (Site 21) took place on this section of the route by K. Wiggins in May–-June 2005.
Site 21 comprised eleven cut features (pits of various sizes and a post-hole cut into the edge of one of the larger pits) and thirteen distinct fills/deposits associated with the cuts. The features were spread over a distance of c. 110m along the length of the road-take in Field 3. Most of these features seemed to relate to fulacht fiadh activity (see No. 1707 below).
Between 12 October and 16 November 2005, monitoring took place under Yvonne Whitty’s licence during construction of the route. One small pit was found and excavated in November 2005.