County: Dublin Site name: Grange/Ballybane/Nangor
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 13E0435
Author: Gill McLoughlin
Site type: Furnace pit (monitoring)
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 703873m, N 731566m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.324149, -6.440790
Monitoring of a proposed central carriageway at Grange Castle Business Park, Co. Dublin was carried out from 1-8 November 2013. Monitoring followed an archaeological appraisal carried out in September 2013 and geophysical survey was previously carried out throughout the entire area of Grange Castle Business Park.
Two features of archaeological interest were identified during monitoring of topsoil stripping in the east of the development area in Nangor townland. These features comprised a small bowl furnace (0.36m x 0.33m x 0.15m) filled with charcoal-rich soil and slag, and a shallow oval pit (0.97m x 0.69m x 0.1m) filled with charcoal, thought to be a charcoal clamp. These features were located approximately 35m apart and may have been associated with each other.
It is anticipated that specialist analyses in the form of charcoal analysis, radiocarbon dating and metallurgical analysis will be carried out on the material retrieved from the features excavated at the site
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