What is recorded here

In 3390 BC a tall plank house stood in County Dublin, its western doorway facing the coming dark. Inside, clay vessels held food or oil while flint tools cut and scraped. The building has vanished, but its shadow remains in the soil, waiting for someone to remember the warmth it kept from the ancient world.

Pre-development investigations in 2005 identified evidence dating from the Neolithic through to the early medieval period. The earliest activity at the site dates from the Neolithic. It comprises a Neolithic house, oriented roughly N-S (L 10m, Wth 6m). The footprint of the building was wholly defined by a slot trench, suggesting that the structure was plank built with evidence for a doorway on the W side. A substantial assemblage of early Neolithic pottery and struck flint were retrieved from the slot trench. This produced a radiocarbon date of 3394-3387 cal. BC (Bolger, T.2009, 25-26). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 7 October 2014

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