2002:1500 - NEWTOWN: Duleek Quarry, Meath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Meath

Site name: NEWTOWN: Duleek Quarry

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 02E0528

Author: Deirdre Murphy, ACS Ltd.

Author/Organisation Address: Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 704095m, N 770551m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.674320, -6.424523

Monitoring of topsoil-stripping was carried out on an extension to a quarry at Newtown, Duleek, Co. Meath. The topsoil was a brown clay loam and directly overlay the natural, orange, sandy boulder clay. No archaeological features or deposits were exposed, and no finds were recovered.