County: Westmeath Site name: Lough Lugh, Ushnagh Hill
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WM024:177(64) Licence number: 14E0199
Author: Ger Dowling
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 629269m, N 748993m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 229,325.000000, 248,970.000000
Following on from previous palaeoenvironmental investigations at Lough Lugh in April 2012 (License no. 12E056; Schot et al. 2014), three additional sediment cores were extracted for radiocarbon (AMS) dating purposes from the centre of the lake known as Lough Lugh, on the summit of the Hill of Uisneach, Co. Westmeath, in July 2014. The lake was also augured at 10m intervals across its north-south and east-west axes to gain a clearer picture of its litho-stratigraphy. The investigations were undertaken as part of a collaborative research project by the School of Geography and Archaeology, NUI Galway, and the Discovery Programme.
Reference: Schot, R., Stuijts, I., McGinley, S. and Potito, A. (2014). Reflections on a lake: a multi-proxy study of environmental change and human impacts at Lough Lugh, Uisneach, Co. Westmeath. Late Iron Age and ‘Roman’ Ireland. Discovery Programme Reports 8. Dublin: Wordwell.
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