Pit in Portan (dunboyne By.)

Archaeological monitoring (15E0577) by P. Duffy, D. Bayle and J. Whitaker of topsoil stripping over a large area (c. 92 ha.) conducted intermittently between Dec. 2015 and October 2018 uncovered 37 locations of potential archaeological importance (excavations.ie 2016:051). Each of these was further investigated by the same archaeologists under different licences. At Site 27, excavation (16E0373) by D. Bayley recorded (excavations.ie 2016:554) two small intercutting pits. A large pit (dims 1.2m x 0.41m; D 0.15-0.23m) with a fill of brown silty clay was cut by a smaller pit (dims 0.61m x 0.39m; D 0.26) that might have been a post-hole. The larger pit produced rim and body sherds of a single Late Bronze Age bucket-shaped domestic vessel that can be dated stylistically to c. 900-800 BC, placing it in the Late Bronze Age. (Duffy et. al. 2021, 23) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 26 April, 2023 Duffy, P., Fairhead, S. & F. Fleeshouven 2021 Final Excavation Report for Sites 3-37, Clonee, Portan, Gunnocks, Co. Meath. Multiple licences, Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy