What is recorded here

Mud and memory collide where the Boyne flows red. Flint clusters still scatter across the open field, marking Neolithic and Early Bronze age events long before cannon smoke. The land remembers every hand that shaped stone and every foot that bled on soil.

A field walking survey in 2000 on the site of the Battle of the Boyne (1690) revealed a number of notable flint concentrations. The material dated broadly to the Neolithic and Early Bronze age periods. This particular concentration of 'small clusters representing discrete episodic events' was located in a quite level and open field (Cooney et al. 2001, 43, Appendix 4, Fig. 11). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 13 February 2012

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