County: Meath Site name: Dunshaughlin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a Licence number: 21E0332
Author: Liam Coen c/o Archer Heritage
Site type: Testing, no archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 697004m, N 751506m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.504590, -6.537728
Test excavations took place on 1 June 2021. Seven trenches totalling 428 linear metres were excavated across the site. Topsoil was 0.3m in depth. Below that lay a light brown/yellow ploughzone or transitional horizon 0.1-0.2m in depth overlying the subsoil. Subsoil comprised a brown and grey limestone till with occasional ridges of broken limestone bedrock present. No features, deposits or material of archaeological significance was identified during the test excavations.
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