Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - Bronze Age
Laughanstown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laughanstown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- DU026-158----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Archaeological excavations in 2001 revealed a series of large post-holes, defining an oval area (dims. 4.5m by 4.12m, Site 40). The interior of the house was supported by irregularly placed posts. The house was defined in the E by a slot-trench. Artefacts from the house included a circular sandstone disc, a quartz tool, fragments of polished stone tools and sherds of Bronze age pottery (Seaver 2003, 130).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy.
Revised upload on: 26 May 2018.
References
Seaver, M. and Keeley, V. 2004 Laughanstown. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 172. Bray. Wordwell.
Seaver, M. and Keeley, V. 2003 Laughanstown. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 129. Bray. Wordwell.
Seaver, M. and Keeley, V. 2002 Laughanstown. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 112-14. Bray. Wordwell.