County: Kerry Site name: The Wood, Dingle
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 22E0346
Author: Magda Lyne, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit Ltd
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 444020m, N 601500m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.143304, -10.279019
Archaeological test trenching was carried out on 2 and 3 June 2022 at a site at The Wood, Dingle, Co. Kerry. A total of 19 test trenches were excavated within the site. Each trench measured 1.6m in width, and in total, 555m of linear trenches were excavated down to the natural subsoil. Topsoil and sod, with a combined depth of 0.4m to 0.72m, was taken down onto a natural that varied from orange-brown sand in the north to pale grey sandy clay in the south portion of the site. Roughly north to south and east to west aligned furrows were noted in excavated test trenches, these were between 0.3-0.5m in width and between 0.02-0.15m
deep. Two linear features recorded represented a drain or a former field boundary C3, and a former field boundary C4 depicted on the 1835 map. A stone outcrop C5 was found to be natural in origin. In the east portion of the site, in Trench 2, C6 was investigated and was found to represent root burning and was deemed not of archaeological significance.
No archaeological features or deposits were exposed or identified.
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