County: Wicklow Site name: Pound Road, Dunlavin Uppper, Dunlavin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 22E0200
Author: Ian Russell, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit Ltd
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 687077m, N 701111m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.053543, -6.701128
Archaeological test trenching was carried out on the site at Pound Road, Dunlavin Upper, Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow. This was informed by geophysical survey 22R0079.
A total of 10 test trenches were excavated within the site. The test trenches targeted anomalies discovered during the geophysical survey (licence 22R0079). Each trench measured 1.8m in width, and in total 1,233m of linear trenches were excavated. The test trenches were excavated down to the natural subsoil. A mid-brown silty clay topsoil and sod, with a combined depth of 0.2m to 0.64m, was taken down onto a natural orange-brown boulder clay. The anomalies detected were targeted and deemed geological in nature; some represented changes in topsoil
that did not extend to natural. A number of linear features exposed represented furrows. These were roughly east to west and north to south aligned, measured between 0.6-0.8m in width, some corresponded with Anomalies D, E and F. A roughly north-east to south-west boundary C3, corresponding with Anomaly B and a historic boundary depicted on the 1837 map, removed by 1908, was exposed.
No archaeological features or deposits were exposed or identified
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