2023:840 - Damastown Road, Dublin 15, Dublin
County: Dublin
Site name: Damastown Road, Dublin 15
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/a
Licence number: 23E0442
Author: Siobhán Deery
Author/Organisation Address: First Floor, Unit 5B, Block F, Nutgrove Office Block, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14, D14Y8C9
Site type: Kiln
Period/Dating: Iron Age (800 BC-AD 339)
ITM: E 705170m, N 741140m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.409900, -6.418145
Archaeological monitoring took place between June 26 and July 4, 2023, at the site of a planned industrial unit at Damastown Road, Dublin 15. One feature of archaeological interest, previously identified during the testing phase of the development (Licence No. 22E0788), was resolved.
The feature comprised a kiln, which presented as a shallow, elongated oval burnt pit which measured 2.1m x 0.8m wide x 0.26m deep. The kiln contained four contexts, three of which produced charred archaeobotanical remains. The archaeobotanical assemblage produced evidence for cereal cultivation and processing in the Iron Age, comprising hulled and naked barley, low frequencies of free-threshing and glume wheat, chaff, and low frequencies of oat. It appears that the cereals were threshed, sieved and winnowed close to the field after harvest and brought to the kiln for small-scale drying. A radiocarbon analysis returned indicates that the kiln was in use in the Iron Age (cal. AD 28-207; UBA-54097)
No other material finds, deposits or features of archaeological significance were observed during the monitoring.
References
Nikolah Gilligan 2023 ‘Archaeobotanical Analysis of Charred Non-Wood Plant Remains. Damastown, Dublin 15, 23E0442′. Unpublished report.