County: Meath Site name: RATHMULLAN 11
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1245
Author: Ian Russell, ACS Ltd.
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 706405m, N 774460m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.708975, -6.388235
Two oval pits were exposed during the monitoring of topsoil-stripping associated with the construction of the northern ramp of the proposed toll plaza at Rathmullan, Co. Meath.
Both pits had been filled with a black/dark grey loam containing frequent inclusions of angular and heat-shattered stone and are likely to represent outlying pits from a potential fulacht fiadh that lay outside the site to the north or south. Pit F004 had been cut by a post-medieval/modern field drain, oriented north-east/south-west. No finds were recovered during the excavation, although a single piece of animal bone was recovered from the base of F004.
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