County: Meath Site name: RATHMULLAN 10
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0870
Author: Ian Russell, ACS Ltd.
Site type: Field boundary
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 706405m, N 774460m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.708975, -6.388235
A single north–south-running ditch and three 19th–20th-century field drains were exposed during monitoring of topsoil-stripping associated with the proposed toll plaza at Rathmullan, Co. Meath (No. 1425, Excavations 2002, 02E0745).
The ditch, exposed at a height of 60.294m OD, was 27m long and 1.4m wide and extended to a depth of 0.21m; it had been filled with a compact, grey, dauby clay. A rimsherd of a late medieval vessel and a large fragment of a possible late medieval floor tile were recovered from the fill during monitoring.
The ditch had been cut by three field drains. A number of finds recovered from the fill of two of the drains indicated that they dated to the 19th–20th centuries.
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