County: Meath Site name: LAGORE LITTLE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1259
Author: Emmet Byrnes and Aimee Little, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Prehistoric site - lithic scatter
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 699565m, N 753513m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.522144, -6.498491
Excavation was carried out, from 4 to 7 June 2002, of a knapping cluster at Lagore Little, Co. Meath, as part of the Bord Gáis Éireann Pipeline to the West project (Section 1A: Ballough to Kinnegad). The site was revealed during monitoring of topsoil-stripping and was recorded as a concentration of knapped flint measuring 1.8m (north–south) by 0.7m.
The excavation uncovered a concentrated cluster of 466 knapped flint pieces in the shallow natural depression.
Both chert and flint were used. The flint was very poor in quality, with numerous impurities, and appeared to be glacial erratic in origin. The pieces varied in colour from greyish-, yellowish- and mid-brown to deep reddish-brown. Almost all of the pieces were derived from ‘tested’ pebbles, i.e. the pebbles and cobbles were split in half using the bipolar percussion technique. There was only one finished tool, a flint end scraper. A quartzite hammerstone and three possible rubbers were also found in the cluster.
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