County: Meath Site name: HOLLYMOUNT AND HILLTOWN GREAT
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1043
Author: David J. O’Connor, Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Habitation site
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 708634m, N 768075m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.651156, -6.356714
Testing of the proposed development of an eighteen-hole golf-course, including driving range, temporary clubhouse, and associated roadways and services, was required. The development will involve substantial ground disturbance, in particular in the excavation of green areas, the emplacement of roadways and services, and landscaping works for the laying out of the course. The site is in the townlands of Hollymount and Hilltown Great and is c. 1km east of Bellewstown village. The site lies in mixed agricultural land, on the northern slope of Bellewstown Hill.
The results indicate that substantial subsurface archaeological features dating to the prehistoric period survive in situ in a defined area, F2 (identified in the initial assessment). Nine trenches were excavated around F2 from 10 to 12 July 2002. Deposits of archaeological significance were uncovered in Trenches 1, 3, 6 and 9, consisting of a defined area containing a number of archaeological features of probable prehistoric date. Finds included a heat-fractured flint blade, burnt bone and possibly burnt horn or antler. A possible flint core was recovered from Trench 9. It appeared to have been struck numerous times.
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