County: Kildare Site name: Clane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a Licence number: 18E0233 ext.
Author: Liam Coen, c/o Archer Heritage
Site type: Testing, no archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 687555m, N 728500m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.299551, -6.686504
Following an earlier phase of testing within the larger development site two further fields became available and a total of six trenches in this phase were mechanically excavated. Trenches were located to assess the general archaeological potential of the site and investigate anomalies identified in a geophysical survey undertaken in the one suitable field (O’Hara 2020).
None of the anomalies from the geophysical survey proved to be of archaeological origin. The north-western field, location of a nineteenth-century quarry, had been contaminated with modern construction debris with a grassed -over topsoil mound in the western area. A loose brown sandy silt deposit was encountered in the eastern end of one of the trenches here but was not excavated below 1.2m for safety reasons. This may represent a feature associated with the quarrying that took place in the field in the nineteenth century.
No features or material of archaeological interest were identified in the test-trenches during this phase of test excavations.
Reference:
O’Hara, R. 2020 ‘Capdoo Commons, Clane, Co. Kildare. Magnetic Gradiometer Report. Licence no. 20R0108’. Unpublished report prepared by Archer Heritage on behalf of Ardstone Homes.
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