2004:1160 - ARDBRACCAN, Meath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Meath Site name: ARDBRACCAN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E0586

Author: Neil Fairburn, Cocyn Uchaf, Moelfre, Anglesey, Wales LL72 8LL, for ACS Ltd.

Site type: Ditch and pits

Period/Dating:

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.