2007:1386 - Sevitsland, Meath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Meath Site name: Sevitsland

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0029

Author: Dominic Delany, Dominic Delany & Associates, Unit 3, Howley Court, Oranmore, Co. Galway.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 714357m, N 772908m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.693356, -6.268409

Pre-development testing was carried out on the site of a proposed housing development at Sevitsland, Bettystown, Co. Meath, on 31 January 2007. There are no known monuments in the vicinity of the proposed development site, the nearest being a holy well located over 150m to the south-east. Eleven trenches were opened on the development footprint. The topsoil varied from 0.2m to 0.35m in thickness and overlay light to mid-brown silty clay subsoil. No archaeological material was uncovered.