County: Wicklow Site name: Glenheron Phase 2, Charlesland
Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a Licence number: 17E0648
Author: Liza Kavanagh
Site type: Pits and post-holes
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 729037m, N 709829m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.123375, -6.072064
The excavations undertaken on behalf of Cairn homes at Charlesland, Co. Wicklow followed on from a programme of monitoring (licence ref.: 17E0648), which was carried out as a condition of planning (No. 22) that was granted for the project by Wicklow County Council (Planning Ref.: 16/1412).
Four areas of archaeology were identified from monitoring works (Archaeological Areas 1–4). Archaeological Areas 1 and 4 remains are likely to be Bronze Age in date and are similar to other sites that have been recorded within the surrounding landscape. Archaeological Areas 2-3 were shown to have no archaeological significance, with AA 2 noted as the remains of two tree bowls and AA 3 noted as a linear feature containing a sherd of modern glazed pottery.
Archaeological Area 1 comprised eight pits, five of which contained token deposits of burnt bone and one composed mainly of scorched sand. Two shallow deposits with burnt bone flecks recorded within a natural hollow and a possible post-hole were also within this area. The area was located on the top of the slope of the hill on the south-west edge of site. The pits without cremated deposits were clustered to the east of AA 1 with the token burnt bone deposits noted throughout the site but were generally focused on the west end. The pits and post-hole without burnt bone fragments ranged in size from 0.31m x 0.2m x 0.14m, the smallest, to 0.5m x 0.34m x 0.18m the largest. The sub-circular pits with burnt bone fragments ranged in size from 0.48m x 0.4m x 0.25m, the smallest, to 0.54m x 0.43m x 0.15m the largest. An oval pit filled with scorched sand and burnt bone flecks was also noted, cut by a cremation pit. It measured 1.45m x 0.9m x 0.18m.
Archaeological Area 4 consisted of two pits. The first pit (1.6m x 1.2m x 0.12m) was filled with charcoal-stained sandy clay and the second (2.6m x 0.95m x 0.31m) was filled with black-brown silty sand and stone deposit from which a flint scraper was recovered. A modern sub-oval cut contained a dark brown gravelly deposit with a piece of modern glass. A single post-hole was noted to the south-west of the pit.
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