County: Kildare Site name: Capdoo Commons, Clane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a Licence number: 18E0233
Author: Liam Coen c/o Archer Heritage Planning
Site type: Testing, no archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 687717m, N 728370m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.298356, -6.684110
The site was located at Clane and Capdoo Commons townlands to the north of the town of Clane. Trenches were located to assess the archaeological potential of the general area; some trenches were specifically located to investigate anomalies noted during geophysical survey (Target Archaeological Geophysics, Detection licence 18R0041).
Twenty-one test trenches with a combined length of 3128m were excavated within the site. Topsoil was quite uniform, 0.2-0.3m in depth across the area; subsoil was compact mixed yellow and light brown boulder clay with extensive areas of grey sand and gravels. Numerous roughly parallel linear features were identified in the test-trenches. These were highlighted in the geophysical survey, orientated east-west and likely represent cultivation furrows. Their presence may be a factor for the lack of archaeological evidence, truncating previous activity. No evidence for the potential archaeological features indicated in the geophysical survey in Trenches 8 and 21 was identified. No archaeology was found.
Archer Heritage Planning, 8 Beat Centre, Stephenstown, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin.
