2001:942 - BALGEEN 3, Balgeen, Meath

The site was exposed in the townland of Balgeen between the River Nanny and Dardistown Lane at chainage 17230, during monitoring of topsoil-stripping carried out under licence number 01E0090 during groundworks associated with the construction of Contract 7 of the Northern Motorway Project. The site was identified as a small circular pit c. 0.3m in diameter.

The pit was exposed at a depth of 0.34m (35.377m OD) below the sod and mid-brown topsoil and had been partially truncated to the north by a machine during the earlier topsoil-stripping. It measured 0.6m in length by 0.41m in width and extended to a depth of 0.26m (35.117m OD). It was oval and had been cut into the natural compact grey boulder clay. Filled with a grey-black sandy clay, it contained moderate amounts of charcoal flecks, subangular and subrounded stone, and fragments of burnt clay. The fill of the pit produced a date in the early Bronze Age. The sides of the pit sloped gradually on the east and north and more steeply on the west and south, sloping to a rounded concave base. No finds were recovered.