County: Westmeath Site name: Ballinderry Road, Mullingar
Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a Licence number: 19E0656
Author: Liam Coen c/o Archer Heritage Planning
Site type: Testing, no archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 644476m, N 751538m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.511941, -7.329454
A total of 22 test trenches were excavated within a site, currently in rough pasture, off the Ballinderry Road on the southern edge of the town of Mullingar, Co. Westmeath. Geophysical survey was undertaken across the site in September 2019 by J Leigh under detection device consent 19R0208. Linear trends and responses in the south had archaeological potential with further isolated responses in the data evident.
Trenches were spaced 10-15m apart and located in order to test the general archaeological potential of the site and various geophysical anomalies. Excavation proceeded in level spits of 0.2m. Topsoil thickness varied substantially between northern, southern and south-eastern parts of the field ranging from 0.2-0.6m. Subsoil was a dark yellow-brown mixture of clay and silt, with frequent angular stones and concentrations of shale stone. No archaeological features or objects were recorded in any of the trenches.
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