County: Meath Site name: Kingsgate, Larrix Street, Duleek
Sites and Monuments Record No.: ME027-038---- Licence number: 20E0595
Author: Linda Clarke, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 704474m, N 768676m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.657401, -6.419423
Archaeological test trenching was carried out at Kingsgate, Larrix Street, Duleek, Co. Meath on 18 November 2020 using a 14-tonne excavator. A total of 3 test trenches were excavated. Each trench measured 1.8m in width, in total 115m of linear meters were excavated. In general, the average thickness of the topsoil measured c. 0.3m and lay above dark orange/brown subsoil that measured between c. 0.16-0.3m. The natural was exposed at a depth of c. 0.46-0.6m and consisted of orange-brown silty boulder clay, containing pockets of stone.
Modern disturbance consisting of mottled loose brownish-grey clay was recorded in the south end of Trench 2 and was found truncating a stone-filled drain.
No archaeological features or deposits were exposed or identified, and no finds were recovered in the course of test trenching.
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