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.

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.

Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth