What is recorded here

Marianne and her children jumped off the train at Drogheda, climbed the grassy slope and stood beside the tree island. They had followed a thin line of flint chips across the field, not a road or a marker. Marianne touched a sharp stone half buried in soil and imagined people doing the same thousands of years before the battle. The children ran ahead, kicking up dust on the old ground while she watched the river bend below.

A field walking survey on the site of the Battle of the Boyne 1690 in 2000 revealed a number of notable flint concentrations. The material dated broadly to the Neolithic and Early Bronze age periods. This particular concentration was located above a break in slope demarcated by an island of tree planting (Cooney et al 2001, 43, Appendix 4, Fig. 11). Compiled by Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 13 February 2012

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