2003:1426 - NAVAN: Canon Row, Meath
County: Meath
Site name: NAVAN: Canon Row
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 25:44
Licence number: 03E1314
Author: Alan Hayden, Archaeological Projects Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 27 Coulson Avenue, Rathgar, Dublin 6
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 686639m, N 767830m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.653060, -6.689391
Five trenches were mechanically excavated on 3 September 2003. Silt-filled pits, gullies and ditches survived at the south end of the site beneath a layer of medieval cultivated soil. Many contained medieval pottery. Cultivation furrows and gullies containing medieval pottery survived also at the north end beneath a layer of medieval cultivated soil. No features survived at the centre of the site, where a natural gravel ridge rose to modern ground level. As the proposed development included a basement over the whole site, excavation of the surviving features was recommended.