Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Lissenhall Little, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissenhall Little
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47779, -6.21464
- SMR number
- DU011-130----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A circular ring-ditch visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). This site was subject to geophysical survey (08R117) and test excavation (09E 0463) which revealed the cremation pit and eastern ditch of this ring ditch. The exposed portion of the monument measured 14.90 m in external diameter and 8.80 m in internal diameter. The ditch was sectioned recording a maximum depth of 1.2m measured from ground surface and width of 3.3 m at subsoil surface. A cremation pit comprises a sub-rectangular deposit of black charcoal stained silty clay (0.31m x 0.44m). Testing of the feature stopped when a fragment of pottery was noted against this edge, in order to preserve the integrity of any human remains and cremation vessel (Channing 2009).
Compiled by: David O’Connor
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 09 January 2015
References
Channing, J. 2009 Assessment Report on the Results of Metro North Advance Archaeological Test Trenching, Area 6, Lissenhall Little and Balheary Demesne townlands, Co. Dublin (Licence no. 09E0464). Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.