Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit
Derver, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derver
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76683, -6.99135
- SMR number
- ME010-058----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a SW-facing slope. Archaeological testing (E003594) by S. Rathbone (2007) of an area of almost 4 hectares required for the M3 development identified and excavated two small pits that could be hearths (excavations.ie 2007:1300). One is oval (dims 0.86m NW-SE; 0.44m NE-SW; D 0.15m) with a soft pink/brown silty clay layer that has small stones and pieces of charcoal over a soft black silty clay with frequent charcoal. About 50m to the SW was a second subcircular feature (dims 0.76m N-S; 0.66m E-W; D 0.06m) with a single fill of a soft black silty clay with frequent pieces of charcoal and small stones. No artefacts were recovered. Archaeological monitoring of soil-stripping over the remainder of the area by the same archaeologist under the same licence produced no further material.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 January 2023
Rathbone, S. 2007 M3 Clonee – North of Kills Motorway Scheme. Proposed Borrow pit at Derver. Licence: E003549. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.