County: Dublin Site name: Profile Park, Kilbride
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 21E0061
Author: Donald Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit
Site type: Enclosure
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 703650m, N 730500m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.314616, -6.444484
Archaeological assessment, in the form of targeted archaeological test trenching of an enclosure and associated features, was carried out at the site at Profile Park, Kilbride, Dublin in June 2021 using a 14-tonne track excavator. The site is located within Profile Park, adjacent to and south of Profile Park Road.
A total of ten test trenches were excavated, targeting anomalies identified during the geophysical survey 20R0080 (Anomalies D, E, F, G). Each test trench measured 1.8m in width. In total, 232 linear meters were excavated. In general, the average thickness of topsoil measured between c. 0.14-0.3m and consisted of dark brown sandy clay exposing a stony grey boulder clay natural that was in places represented by yellow/grey stoney marl.
Testing confirmed the results of the geophysical survey and succeeded in identifying the remains of an oval/circular enclosure (Anomaly D) measuring c. 40m in diameter. Enclosure ditch C3 measures 2.4m in width and 0.33m in depth. It appears that the upper part of the ditch was likely truncated during groundworks in 2009. Furthermore, two linear features (corresponding with Anomalies F and G) were recorded. These were represented by two roughly east-west aligned linear ditches (C5 and C7) measuring 1.7m and 1.45m in width and 0.32m and 0.3m in depth, respectively. In addition, a feature visible as a positive anomaly, representing a modern bank C9 (visible on a 2017 aerial photograph), that appears to be in alignment with anomaly G, was noted. Anomaly E was of geological nature.
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