County: Westmeath Site name: KINNEGAD 4
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0928
Author: Deirdre Murphy, ACS Ltd.
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 659440m, N 745567m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.456810, -7.104996
Testing was carried out before construction of the proposed M4 Kinnegad–Enfield–Kilcock Motorway Scheme. In February 2002, during centre-line testing of the motorway carried out by Ian Russell (No. 1876, Excavations 2002, 02E0108), two pits were identified. The site was designated Kinnegad 4 and was excavated in July 2002. A large area around the features was stripped of topsoil to a depth of 0.5m. Only a single pit was identified, the smaller of the two presumably having been removed by the previous phase of testing. The pit was oval, measuring 0.78m by 0.55m, and had a maximum depth of 0.05m. It was cut into the boulder clay and was filled with dark grey silt containing frequent inclusions of charcoal, oxidised clay and stone. There was no evidence of associated archaeological features, and no finds were recovered. It appears that this pit was isolated and had very little archaeological significance.
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