2018:662 - Derryadd, Longford

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Longford Site name: Derryadd

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 18E0177

Author: Fiona Rooney

Site type: Monitoring

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 606050m, N 768287m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.664302, -7.908459

Monitoring of the geotechnical site investigations at Derryadd, Co. Longford was carried out over a period of three days. A total of twenty trial pits were mechanically excavated in the bogs of Derryaroge and Derryadd. No features and/or artefacts of archaeological significance were encountered during the course of monitoring. The stratigraphy encountered revealed varying levels of peat overlying a natural grey clay.

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