County: Dublin Site name: Barrack Lane, Lusk
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DU008-010 Licence number: 21E0716
Author: Aidan O'Connell
Site type: Ecclesiastical enclosure
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 721515m, N 754252m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.524166, -6.167362
An archaeological excavation was carried out at the site following test excavations (2019:513; 19E0748) by James Hession. Test excavations identified a total of 24 features, 22 of which were interpreted as archaeological. The most significant was a large ditch curving along the southern site boundary and interpreted as corresponding to the outer enclosing ditch around the early church site. This curvilinear ditch was identified during the excavations as the earliest, surviving feature on site. A corroded iron ringed pin was retrieved from this ditch, indicating a 10th-11th-century date. Another larger ditch (90.56m long north-south) extended throughout the site and appears to have been previously identified in an excavation at the north of this site (see 2009:350; 09E0261ext.). A copper alloy dress pin was retrieved from the ditch. Three additional linear ditches extended along the eastern site boundary and contained numerous sherds of late and post-medieval pottery. Additional features consisted of pits, drainage ditches and a substantial well. The well was keyhole-shaped in plan with a narrow, shallow section to the south of a wider deep oval cut. Post-excavation works are ongoing
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