County: Meath Site name: RATOATH: Fox Lodge Manor
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E1231
Author: Robert O'Hara, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 702723m, N 752079m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.508656, -6.451359
Monitoring was carried out in advance of a residential development at Ratoath, Co. Meath. The site area was 16.3 acres. It is proposed to construct 124 semi-detached and detached residential units with associated services on a greenfield site situated to the east of the town and outside the zone of archaeological potential.
There were no known archaeological remains within the proposed development. Topsoil-stripping was carried out in November 2004. No significant archaeological remains were identified. A single shallow cut feature was identified, which contained occasional charcoal flecking but no other datable material. There were expected finds of ceramic and earthenware fragments from the topsoil, but also recovered were a flint flake, a broken flint blade and a body sherd of local glazed medieval pottery.
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