Habitation site, Newcourt, Co. Wicklow

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Habitation site, Newcourt, Co. Wicklow

Before the first brick was laid for a new housing estate at Newcourt in County Wicklow, groundwork monitoring in 2001 revealed something considerably older beneath the surface.

Clusters of worked flint and raw flint nodules came to light, the kind of material signature left behind when people spent time in one place, knapping stone into tools and discarding the debris. Associated pits and areas of burning suggest this was not a fleeting stop but a location where people had settled, cooked, and worked.

The finds were recorded under Excavation Licence 00E0084 and published by Clutterbuck in 2003. Flint does not occur naturally in this part of Wicklow, so its presence in quantity points to deliberate gathering and transport of raw material, or to exchange with communities elsewhere. Worked flint assemblages of this kind are typically prehistoric in date, though without further analysis the precise period remains open. What is clear is that the site preserves evidence of repeated or sustained activity, the pits in particular suggesting organised use of the ground rather than chance passage.

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