What is recorded here

Roestown 2 holds two broken bodies, a child and an adult, scattered by post-medieval ploughing before anyone knew them. They lay inside Enclosure 7, disconnected from every other mark in the soil, refusing even to give up their age. The child faced west to east, perhaps supine, while the adult kept only fragments of skull and arm. They entered the earth without witness and left it without memory, two ordinary lives reduced to shape and silence.

Two poorly preserved human burials that had been damaged by post-medieval ploughing were within the area of Enclosure 7, but they could not be linked through stratigraphy with any other features and the remains were not suitable for radiocarbon dating. Burial 1 was a juvenile of indeterminate sex that had probably been supine and aligned W-E. Burial 2 was an adult of unknown sex and only fragments of the skull and arm bones remained. (O’Hara 2009, 40; 2009a) True location: 695766, 753931) See the attached plans from O'Hara (2009, figs 9, 44) _2 Site plan; _3 Phase 1 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 25 April, 2022 O’Hara, R. 2009 M3 Clonee - North of Kells, Contract 2 Dunshaughlin - Navan. Final Report on the Archaeological Excavation of Roestown 2, Co. Meath. Licence: E003055. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services O’Hara, R. 2009a Early Medieval Settlement at Roestown 2. In Deevy, M. and Donald Murphy 2009 Places Along the Way, 57-82. NRA Scheme Monographs: 5.

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