Enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

'Site No. 2' at Kill Hill (designated KD020-022----) was identified at the base of a slope to the north of Kill Hill during archaeological centre-line testing (Licence No. 03E1265: www.excavations.ie) for the N7 Naas Road Widening and Interchanges Schemes, and was fully excavated (Licence No. 03E1569: www.excavations.ie). The site was first identified as a sub circular penannular ditch filled with striking whitish-grey silty clay. The cut of the ditch was narrow (Wth 0.33-0.47m), enclosing an area of 7m in diameter with terminals to the east. The ditch cut splayed to its widest at both terminals and left an uncut width of c. 2m between the two. An area measuring approximately 30m by 30m was stripped of topsoil around the feature and a post-medieval stone field drain was the only other feature revealed in the vicinity. The ditch fill contained no finds and was, on average, 0.2m deep. There were no features recorded within the circular ditch. On preliminary analysis, considered in relation to the other two features excavated in the vicinity, this feature appears to be a Bronze Age ritual site.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 10 June 2011