Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Brittas, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brittas
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.81743, -6.75556
- SMR number
- ME005-088005-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
After the Mesolithic knolls (ME005-088002-, ME005-088003-) had almost been obscured by lake mud a stony platform (dims 9m E-W; 3m plus N-S) was established in the Early to Middle Bronze Age, largely over the E knoll. It was represented by a layer of stones, including fragments of two saddle querns, and two spreads of charcoal (dims 5.8m x 1.85m plus; 1.25m x 0.5m). There were two huts on the platform. This hut (diam. 6.8m) was the later and represented by 20 posts. Its use lasted longer and finds included sherds of pottery from at least twelve vessels including 9 from a corded vessel, rounded scrapers, and barbed and tanged arrowheads. A C14 date of 3460 +- 35 BP (c. 1510 BC) was obtained from charcoal from the larger charcoal spread (Bradley 1984, 86). (Bradley 1983, 19-20; 1991, 11-12; 1999, 11-13; O’Sullivan 1998, 81-3)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.