What is recorded here

Excavation is a small medieval cut on the northwest side of Main Street in County Meath, Ireland. In 1987, digging near a new development exposed about forty centimetres of undisturbed medieval layer, pottery, a cobbled surface and a thick deposit of broken fired clay with straw. The clay may have come from a nearby brick kiln, though no kiln structure appeared. Under modern feet and traffic, the place still keeps a sharp trace of making, breaking and rebuilding.

Situated on a S-facing slope and on the NW side of Main Street. An archaeological rescue excavation and watching brief in 1987 (E000404) uncovered evidence of a medieval building (ME036-048046-) and other features. In the course of the watching brief at the N angle of the development area undisturbed medieval stratigraphy (D c. 0.4m) was identified. Medieval pottery was recovered from these layers but no features were present apart from one cobbled layer. The medieval layers were sealed by a layer (T 0.4m) of fragmented fired clays with straw inclusions and some smooth surfaces, suggesting that a brick kiln may have been in the vicinity, but no structural evidence of a kiln was unearthed. (Walsh 1990-91, 45-6) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 July, 2019

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