What is recorded here

Excavation in County Meath exposed shallow pits and a drainage ditch cut into undulating soil. One circular hole held cremated bone beside charcoal and clay, suggesting a person was lost there before the land became a field. The others held animal bone and small stones, marking repeated human use of the same ground.

Situated on an undulating landscape. Archaeological testing (04E0556) identified a number of features that have straight sides and flat bottoms cut into the subsoil. They are generally filled with silty clays with some small stones and small quantities of animal bone. At one point a circular pit (diam. 1.48m N-S; 1.36m E-W; max. D 0.37m) was filled with a grey brown silty clay with some stones and flecks of charcoal but it also had a deposit of cremated bone. At another point a relict NW-SE drainage ditch (Wth of top 3.3m; D 0.45m) filled with grey/brown silty sandy clay was sampled. It is possible that other pit-burials are in the vicinity but the development was redesigned and monitoring of further works avoided the known features and no others were encountered. (Delaney 2004) (excavations.ie: 2004:1206) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 26 February 2021

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