What is recorded here

One pit in Portraine Demesne gave up a Neolithic date, placing human life there before written history began. It sat twenty metres from a wider habitation, suggesting a settlement rather than a lone act of desperation. People may have stored food, buried tools or marked a boundary in that dark hole. The pit no longer exists as a visible feature, but its date still cuts through centuries of forgotten activity.

This monument was subject to geophysical survey (Licence no. 08R029) and test excavation (Licence no. 10E0121) in advance of the Portrane, Donabate and Lusk Waste Water Treatment scheme. Located 20m N of prehistoric habitation (DU012-095001-) this monument consisted of domestic settlement characterised by a series of pits. Radiocarbon analysis from one of the pits returned a Neolithic date (2908-2638 BC cal.) (McQuade 2011, 22). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 5 February 2015

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