County: Meath Site name: DULEEK: Navan Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E1895
Author: Ellen OCarroll, The Archaeology Company
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 687031m, N 767814m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.654750, -6.422175
Pre-development testing was carried out at Navan Road, Duleek, Co. Meath. The development included 74 houses on a greenfield site and the erection of a Bord na Móna waste treatment plant. Testing was required, as the development site is near Duleek town (SMR 27:38), and because of its relatively large size (ten acres). Eleven long trenches were excavated throughout the site, mainly along the footprint of the proposed housing. The upper 0.5m of stratigraphy in all trenches comprised light-brown silty clay with some small stones. The silty clay lay on mottled yellow/grey stony boulder clay. There were no archaeological deposits recorded during the testing.
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