County: Meath Site name: Pitcher Lane, Kells
Sites and Monuments Record No.: ME017-044 Licence number: 23E0628
Author: Maeve McCormick
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 673966m, N 776142m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.729683, -6.879078
Test excavation was undertaken on 31 July 2023 in wet, cloudy, conditions. It was proposed to excavate 4 trenches (c.70 linear metres) by mechanical excavator under archaeological supervision. Trenches 1, 2 and 4 were altered due to constraints. Trench 3 could not be excavated. This resulted in a total of 50 linear metres being excavated instead of the proposed 75 linear metres.
Excavation of the trenches revealed good quality garden topsoil varying in depth between 0.6m and 1.5m. The topsoil was overlying natural subsoil of light yellowish-grey silty-clay.
Nothing of archaeological significance was recorded during the test excavation.
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