County: Meath Site name: ARDBRACCAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E0586
Author: Neil Fairburn, for ACS Ltd.
Site type: Field boundary and Pit
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 682383m, N 767869m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.654097, -6.753745
Testing took place along Testing Area 13 of the Navan bypass section (Contract 3) of the planned M3 Clonee–North of Kells road scheme, Co. Meath. The work was carried out for N3 Meath Consult on behalf of Meath County Council and the National Roads Authority. The testing methodology generally consisted of mechanically excavating 2m-wide trenches along the centre-line and perpendicular to the centre-line to the edge of the land-take every 20m.
One site in the form of a V-shaped ditch and two shallow pits, designated Ardbraccan 4, was uncovered. Both pits were c. 0.3m in diameter and c. 0.08m deep. They had mixed fills of brown silt and charcoal and were located 1m from the edge of a slightly curving V-shaped ditch. The ditch was 0.8m wide and 0.37m deep, with a light-brown compact fill of silty clay with occasional charcoal.
Cocyn Uchaf, Moelfre, Anglesey, Wales LL72 8LL
