County: Meath Site name: DULEEK QUARRY, Duleek
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0444
Author: Cormac McSparron, Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork for NAC Ltd.
Site type: Habitation site
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 704666m, N 768423m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.655099, -6.416596
At Duleek Quarry a pottery scatter identified during a previous archaeological impact assessment had indicated an area of possible medieval settlement. Trial-trenching and a geophysical survey were carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the assessment. The geophysical survey revealed no archaeological features; it was the opinion of the geophysicist that the background geology was masking any archaeology. Trial-trenching was carried out on nine areas of interest. No archaeological finds were uncovered in eight of the trenches. In one trench, however, an area of burning associated with an elongated stone setting and some post-holes was found. A number of fragments of Neolithic pottery and a hammerstone were found in the soil immediately above this archaeology. The site was reburied, but its location was noted for future work before proposed development in the area.
Queen’s University, Belfast BT7 1NN
