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2024:671 - Knocks, Dunshaughlin, Meath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Meath

Site name: Knocks, Dunshaughlin

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 24E0984

Author: Linda Clarke

Author/Organisation Address: Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit, 21 Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, County Louth

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 695590m, N 752051m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.509745, -6.558869

A total of 10 trenches were excavated. Each trench measured 1.8m in width, and, in total, 934m of
linear trenches were excavated. The western field had made-up ground to a depth of 2m from dumped topsoil
from the construction of the M3. Topsoil elsewhere was a brown clayey silt. The natural varied from gravelly
grey sand to a compact, mottled grey and yellow silty clay. No archaeological structures, features or deposits
were observed or exposed within the trenches. Modern stone drains were seen in Trenches 2 & 3.
The proposed development will have no impact on any archaeology. No further work is recommended.


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