2003:1383 - DOWNESTOWN, Meath
County: Meath
Site name: DOWNESTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 03E1658
Author: Miriam Carroll, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 8 Dungar Terrace, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
Site type: Field system, Pit and Structure
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 669436m, N 803411m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.654750, -6.422175
A number of features of archaeological potential were identified during testing of a proposed extension to a Roadstone quarry at Downestown, Duleek, Co. Meath. The excavation of an area measuring 60m (north-south) by 50m was subsequently undertaken over a three-week period. The excavated features consisted of several large but shallow linear trenches, pits and a possible wall foundation. The linear trenches were aligned both north-south and east-west across the site and are likely to represent levelled field divisions or boundaries. Specialist analysis of the pottery recovered from the site is currently under way.