County: Meath Site name: TRIM: Townparks North and South
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 36:48 Licence number: 01E0262 ext.
Author: Alan Hayden, Archaeological Projects Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 681933m, N 756021m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.547725, -6.763663
Monitoring of the mechanical excavation of two foundation pads, one on either side of the River Boyne, to carry a new pedestrian bridge was undertaken on 14 May 2001. An earlier assessment had been carried out by Rosanne Meenan (see No. 1070, Excavations 2001, 01E0262). The trench for each of the pads measured 10m by 12–14m.
On the north side of the river bedrock lay at 1.8–2.2m below modern ground level and was overlain by a 0.2m thickness of archaeologically sterile river silt. The remainder of the profile consisted of modern rubble and topsoil.
On the south side of the river bedrock lay at 3m below modern ground level. A 0.5m-thick layer of water-saturated river-deposited coarse gravel and silt overlay it. These deposits contained water-abraded sherds of 13th/14th-century Dublin glazed wares. A 19th-century river wall overlay the gravel at the south side of the trench. It was abutted by river silt to a height of 1.7m below modern ground level. The remainder of the profile consisted of modern rubble and topsoil.
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