County: Meath Site name: MACETOWN (1)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A023/009, E3100
Author: Kevin Martin, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 686057m, N 763947m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.618269, -6.699264
This site was located within Contract 3 (Navan bypass) of the proposed M3 Clonee to north of Kells motorway and was identified during advance testing by Aidan O’Connell in April 2004 (Excavations 2004, No. 1286, 04E0577). Full resolution between March and May 2006 revealed two U-shaped post-medieval boundary ditches, three shallow features containing cremated bone and five small pits with various levels of charcoal inclusions, three of which also contained burnt stones. A number of pieces of prehistoric pottery were also found in the fill of one of the small pits. Due to the isolation of the features it is difficult to make a stratigraphic link between them. The site, however, would seem to date to the prehistoric period and may have functioned as a ritual site.
21 Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda
