County: Wicklow Site name: Coolbeg
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WI031–045 Licence number: A022/067, E3253
Author: Goorik Dehaene, Coolroe, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow, for Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.
Site type: Pit and furrows
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 727762m, N 690629m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.951224, -6.098704
This site, located on level ground c. 4km south-west of Wicklow town, comprised a single pit and furrows. The archaeological investigation was undertaken in March 2006 on behalf of the National Roads Authority on the route of the N11 Rathnew to Arklow road improvement.
The site, which measured 20m by 20m, encroaches on the east of the constraint area for WI031–045, a flint scatter. The pit comprised a rounded cut (diameter 0.6m by 0.16m deep) with a single burnt-spread fill. Two phases of tilling were evident, the probable earlier lazy-beds and the later furrows. The alignment of all these features was north–south. Seven artefacts were recovered during investigations, six chipped flints and a sherd of post-medieval glass.
