2012:474 - SIMONSTOWN, Meath
County: Meath
Site name: SIMONSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: —
Author: P. David Sweetman
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 685085m, N 772457m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.694882, -6.711630
Areas containing archaeological material left unresolved after monitoring and test excavations carried out by Cóilín Ó Drisceoil (Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd) for Boliden, Tara Mines in 1998 (Excavations 1998, No. 526, 98E0352) were excavated. Entire unresolved areas were stripped by machine and several small pits found which produced flint and some Late Bronze Age pottery.