2004:1185 - BETAGHSTOWN, Meath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Meath Site name: BETAGHSTOWN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1709

Author: Eoghan Kieran, c/o Archaeological Development Services Ltd.

Site type: Various

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 714613m, N 773499m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.698600, -6.264324

A series of 25 test-trenches were excavated by mechanical digger fitted with a toothless bucket. Nineteen trenches contained features which appeared to be archaeological. The most definitive features were a partially exposed arc of a 0.8–0.9mwide circular ring-ditch, a disarticulated human burial, an area of burning and an additional area of burning. These features were uncovered on the gentle sloping north-south-running ridge which dominates the terrain in this area. These features are indicative of the area having been subject to intensive archaeological activity.

Editor's note: Though carried out in 2002, this summary was received too late for inclusion in the bulletin of that year.

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