County: Dublin Site name: Bay 2
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E003918
Author: Robert O’Hara, Archaeological Consultancy Services Limited, Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
Site type: Bronze Age burial and Iron Age hearth/kiln
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 708810m, N 742730m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.423450, -6.362864
A Middle Bronze Age burial site and Iron Age hearth/kiln were excavated at Bay 2, Co. Dublin, ahead of the Tyrrellstown to N2 Cherryhound Interchange link road in June 2008. The burial site comprised an annular ring-ditch enclosing a deposit of cremated bone and charcoal. This deposit was radiocarbon dated to 1370–1110 bc. In potential association with these features was a further cremation burial located adjacent to the ring-ditch.
An Iron Age hearth/kiln was also excavated and dated to between 160 bc and ad 50. A pit adjacent to this feature contained a significant amount of cremated human bone that was unlikely to be in its original context and may be further evidence for disturbed later Bronze Age burials.
