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Site 78 was discovered during the monitoring of groundwork associated with the onstruction of the South Eastern Motorway, County Dublin. It was located on the course f a watermain, which had to be re-routed as part of road construction. Excavation ncovered an area containing a considerable quantity of Early-Middle Bronze Age ottery and flint on the edge of a low-lying area of silt which runs down to the hanganagh river. A cremation in a pit was found nearby along with a cup marked stone. o the west and north was a spread of fire-cracked granite along with two rectangular roughs, which are typical features of Bronze Age, burnt mounds. Two large waterholes ere excavated, these features cut through the low-lying area to below the water table. A roken Middle-Late Bronze Age pot was found nearby. A further and distinct burnt pread was found to the east and covered two circular troughs, a pit associated with an rc of postholes and a further waterhole along with a four-poster structure, which may ave been used for storage. The area was subsequently inundated by silt suggesting looding/water logging over a prolonged period caused by changes in land use and/or limatic conditions. Some of the latest silts contained medieval pottery and a medieval opper-alloy sick pin. This site was one of a considerable number discovered around the dge of the low-lying basin between Carrickmines Great and Laughanstown. These uggested a distinct environment and land use from the lands further east and west.