County: Meath Site name: GAINSTOWN (1)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A023/009, E3101
Author: Steve Linnane, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 684985m, N 764659m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.624848, -6.715265
This site was located within Contract 3 (Navan bypass) of the proposed M3 Clonee to north of Kells motorway and was identified during geophysical survey (Bartlett-Clark Consultancy 2002). The geophysical survey revealed several archaeological anomalies, while advance testing by Aidan O’Connell in May 2004 (Excavations 2004, No. 1241, 04E0578) identified the scattered remains of a burnt spread. Full resolution between July and August 2006 identified numerous pits with burnt stone in their fills. These varied in shape and form and some probably functioned as troughs. A series of north–south shallow ditches contained metalling in some areas. This feature may have been a metalled trackway, or it may be designed to assist with drainage.
21 Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda
