2000:0772 - ORISTOWN, Meath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Meath Site name: ORISTOWN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 17:16 Licence number: 00E0337

Author: Finola O’Carroll, Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd.

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 680036m, N 775892m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.726546, -6.787162

A proposed house site is located 22m beyond the western constraint of a ringfort. Monitoring of topsoil removal at the house site (19m x 21m) and driveway (4m x 23m) was undertaken. This revealed a uniform, mid-brown, sandy clay/loam topsoil, which overlay a yellow-brown boulder clay with occasional gravel inclusions. One sherd of modern black-glazed crockery was uncovered. Nothing of archaeological interest was found.

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