2014:203 - Ravenswell, Wicklow

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Wicklow Site name: Ravenswell

Sites and Monuments Record No.: WI004-005---- Licence number: 14E0225

Author: Aidan O'Connell

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 726288m, N 719356m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.209607, -6.109353

Test trenching was carried out at the site of the proposed St Philomena’s School and Coláiste Ráithín, on a 3.9 ha green-field site in Bray, Co. Wicklow. Five test trenches totalling 250m were excavated within the site following a geophysical survey. Trench locations were targeted on the supposed location of a Pale Boundary Ditch which was also located in the course of a geophysical survey. Testing revealed the ditch as a 19th-century feature. 19th-century glass and pottery finds were uncovered at the base of the trenches across the ditch. Subsoil varied between a compact orange brown stony clay and natural gravel. Topsoil was consistently deep across the majority of the site, ranging from 0.28-0.35m deep. There were no archaeological features recorded in the course of testing.

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