County: Dublin Site name: Corballis 2
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU012-086--- Licence number: 17E0408
Author: Liam Coen, c/o Archer Heritage Planning
Site type: Burnt mound/fulacht fia
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 723496m, N 749419m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.480295, -6.139405
The excavation of a Burnt Mound site (DU012-086---) previously identified by geophysical survey (05R0124) and test-excavation (06E0027) took place in advance of a road scheme. A 10m x 10m cutting was opened at the bottom of a south-facing slope revealing a shallow spread of burnt mound material partially overlying and filling several pits. The main mound material, C3, survived no higher than 0.1m in maximum depth. It was comprised of heat-affected stone in a dark grey sandy clay soil. The natural action of soil movement down the slope resulted in a horizon of silty clay, C4, overlying the burnt mound material and extending down-slope to the south of the site. This silty clay deposit, C4, characterized by diminishing amounts of heat-affected stone away from the main mound concentration, filled a probable palaeo-channel to the south of the site. There were three similar sized pits, C7, C15 and C16, a later shallow re-cutting, C6, of pit C7 and a broad, shallow channel, C19 that led in to pit C15. The basal fill of the probable trough C7 (1.4m north-south x 1.1m x 0.3m in depth) returned a radiocarbon date of 2340-2140 cal BC 2ẟ. A single flint flake was retrieved from pit C6. No animal bones were identified.
8 Beat Centre, Stephenstown, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin
