County: Dublin Site name: Laughanstown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a Licence number: 19E0198
Author: Liza Kavanagh
Site type: Truncated pit and kiln
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 722954m, N 722627m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.239770, -6.157977
A programme of monitoring and excavation took place to firstly identify features of archaeological potential that may survive beneath the current level of topsoil in the construction wayleave of a gas pipeline. In all instances where such features were identified, these have been preserved ‘by record’. Two previously unrecorded features were identified, a truncated pit and a kiln.
The shallow truncated pit contained two deposits including a primary deposit of fine-grained mid-grey brown silty clay with occasional pebbles and charcoal and burnt bone and a secondary deposit of brown silty clay with moderately occurring inclusions of white/grey fragile bone fragments in poor condition, possibly representing a token deposit. Frequent amounts of charcoal chunks also occurred in this deposit.
The roughly keyhole-shaped kiln consisted of a shallow truncated semi-circular bowl feature with a narrow west-north-west/east-south-east aligned flue. It contained four deposits including a beige silty clay and small stone, a light grey silty clay with gravel and charcoal inclusions, a deposit of dark red/brown silty clay with charcoal flecks and a loose dark blackish brown silty clay with frequent charcoal and light bright red heat-affected clay inclusions.
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