County: Meath Site name: TRIM: Haggard Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 36:48 Licence number: 01E0836
Author: Alan Hayden, Archaeological Projects Ltd.
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 681933m, N 756021m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.547725, -6.763663
An assessment was carried out on a proposed development site at the west side of the junction between Haggard Street and High Street, Townparks North, Trim.
Five trenches were mechanically excavated on the site on 16 August 2001.
Subsoil sloped downwards from 1.4m below modern ground level at the south end of the site to 2.1m below modern ground level at the north end. Medieval deposits overlay subsoil in all the trenches, with the top of the deposits lying at 1–1.2m below modern ground level.
The medieval deposits consisted of silt and organic material, with one wall base being recorded from Trench 2 and one driven timber stake from Trench 1.
The material appears to have been water-deposited and contained a high proportion of human-dumped refuse as well as a distinct layer of human-dumped organic material. The water-rounded nature of the stone in the top of subsoil also suggests that the whole site was under water during the medieval period and may have been a pond with a deeper stream or watercourse flowing across its north end from east to west.
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