Excavations.ie

2025:169 - Gormanstown, Stamullen, Meath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Meath

Site name: Gormanstown, Stamullen

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 25E0305

Author: Linda Clarke, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit Ltd

Author/Organisation Address: Unit 21 Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth. A92 DH99.

Site type: Enclosures, possible annex ditch, associated pits

Period/Dating: Undetermined

ITM: E 715555m, N 766333m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.634026, -6.252731

A total of 19 test trenches were excavated across the site, targeting results from a previous geophysical survey (24R0593) and the footprint of the development. Testing has confirmed the presence of two enclosures; enclosure C10 and enclosure C15, with the addition of twenty other features, features C21-C29 located within enclosure C10. C14 is a ditch that runs from enclosure C10 to the inside of enclosure C15. C4 to C9 comprise of pits, ditches and a possible kiln found in Trench 6 at the south of the site. C12 is a possible annex enclosure ditch south of enclosure C10 and ditch C11 was recorded in Trench 9, south of enclosure ditch C10. The features are found at a depth that ranges from 0.3m (northeast of the site) to 1m (Trench 6). A narrow ditch, C20, and possible pit were recorded in Trench 3.

 


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