What is recorded here

In Leganass field, near the south-east corner, flint fragments still scatter across soil that later hosted the Battle of the Boyne. The stones belong to the Neolithic and Early Bronze age, when hands shaped tools before guns ever thundered there. People may have walked this exact ground, dropped a knife or struck a spark in darkness. Layers of life overlapped without warning, human and military, ancient and sudden.

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 was located near the south-east corner of the field known as the 'Leganass field',(Cooney et al. 2001, 43, Appendix 4, Fig. 11). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 13 February 2012

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