Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Flemingtown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Flemingtown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.61796, -6.22389
- SMR number
- DU001-031----
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Excavated in 2002 (Licence no. 02E0297), the remains were found to consist of a curvilinear fosse (1m in width), representing roughly one third of a circle (10.5m diam.). A sherd of Bronze Age coarse pottery was recovered from the ditch. Two radiocarbon dates of 985-817 cal. BC and 217-344 cal. AD indicated a construction date for this enclosure in the late Bronze Age with subsequent activity in the late Iron Age. The enclosure was truncated by a linear field drain from which a sherd of Leinster cooking ware was recovered (Byrnes 2002, 7).
Compiled by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 6 February 2015
References
Byrnes, E. 2002a Archaeological Report, Flemingtown, Balbriggan (Licence 02E0297). Unpublished report. National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
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