2015:259 - Abbeylands, Navan, Meath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Meath Site name: Abbeylands, Navan

Sites and Monuments Record No.: ME025-051---- Licence number: 15E0050

Author: Aidan O'Connell

Site type: No archaeology found.

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 673471m, N 776237m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.730607, -6.886555

An assessment was carried out at a 2.75ha site at St Paul's NS, Navan, Co. Meath adjacent to ME025-051, listed as an enclosure. The area to the rear of the school currently used as sports grounds was test trenched. Two trenches totalling 160m were excavated within the site. Topsoil was removed to a depth of 0.3-0.6m exposing a yellow brown gravel subsoil – no archaeological features were uncovered.

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