2015:393 - BEAVERSTOWN, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: BEAVERSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 14E0419 ext.
Author: Dominic Delany
Author/Organisation Address: Creganna, Oranmore, Co. Galway
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 722000m, N 750535m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.490667, -6.161498
Two phases of topsoil removal were monitored at this large residential development site on 16 April and 17 August 2015. This followed on from geophysical survey, pre-development testing and monitoring of the first phase of topsoil removal in 2014. The stripped soil is best described as ploughsoil, a grey/brown clayey/sandy silt mix of topsoil and subsoil resulting from previous deep ploughing at the site. The depth of topsoil strip varied from 0.2-0.4m. Finds included occasional modern pottery sherds (blackware and delph) and glass fragments, white flint nodules and one flint flint flake.