2022:305 - Proposed Lidl store at Main Street, Newcastle South, Dublin

A total of six test trenches were excavated across the site of a proposed retail store development site at Newcastle South, County Dublin on 17 and 18 November 2022. Nothing archaeological was identified in the northern two thirds of the site. A small number of linear features of potential archaeological consequence were identified at the northern end of the southern greenfield portion of the site. These features were cleaned back but were not excavated. A section was excavated through a modern cultivation furrow and an exploratory sondage was excavated into one other large possible drainage ditch, but no archaeological features or deposits were removed. A small number of sherds of possible late or post-medieval pottery, early modern pottery, clay pipe fragments, sherds of glass, burnt limestones, animal bone, some of with had butchery marks, ferrous slag, modern metal items, and plastics were found in the topsoil excavated from the trenches.
Further archaeological work will be required in the area containing the possible archaeological linear features at the northern end of the greenfield portion of the site.

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