What is recorded here

Roestown 2 preserved a rectangular annexe built in the eight century, replacing two earlier enclosures and later gaining a triangular eastern addition. Its ditch held scattered animal bone and tools, including a horse radius carved with eleven complete interlace panels. The repeated cutting and decorative effort suggest a lived-in boundary where identity, memory and daily work still moved through the earth.

In Area B Enclosure 15 is a rectangular annexe (dims 30m E-W; 10m N-S) attached to the S of Enclosure 1 during Phase 2 in the eight century as a replacement for Enclosures 12 and 14. The ditch sections (Wth 0.7-1.2m; D 0.17-0.7m) were re-cut at least once, and animal bone was present in small quantities. A small triangular addition (max. dims 15m N-S; 8m E-W) was made at the E end after the infilling of the original E side. Artefacts recovered included iron knives, a D-shaped copper-alloy buckle and carved bone trial-pieces with interlace comparable to samples from Lagore crannog (ME038-027----) that could date to the eight or ninth centuries AD. One horse radius had eleven complete carved panels of interlace and several in an incomplete state. (O’Hara 2009, 22; 2009a) True location: ITM (695799, 753787) See the attached images from O'Hara (2009, figs 2, 47, pl. 2) _2 Site plan; _4 Phase 2; _7 Aerial view; O’Hara, R. 2009 M3 Clonee - North of Kells, Contract 2 Dunshaughlin - Navan. Final Report on the Archaeological Excavation of Roestown 2, Co. Meath. Licence: E003055. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services O’Hara, R. 2009a Early Medieval Settlement at Roestown 2. In Deevy, M. and Donald Murphy 2009 Places Along the Way, 57-82. NRA Scheme Monographs: 5.

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