Excavation - miscellaneous

The National Monuments Service's description

Archaeological testing (96E0118) in advance of a graveyard extension explored an area (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 30m N-S) N of the old graveyard. It sampled a NNE-SSW fosse (Wth of top c. 3m; D 1.1m) filled with a uniformly silty and stony soil that has a large clay content and some charcoal flecks cut into the gravelly subsoil. A second E-W ditch (Wth of top 2.3-3.5m; D 1.3) with stratified layers was encountered in two trenches c. 5m from the graveyard wall and parallel with it. Immediately outside this feature a larger fosse (Wth of top 4m plus; D 2.3m plus) was encountered, and both of these may be from an ecclesiastical enclosure (ME011-037003-). The graveyard extension was placed further N of the old graveyard and the archaeological features in this area are now largely preserved beneath a parking area. (Meenan 1996; 1996a; 1997)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 9 April, 2019

References

Meenan, R. 1997 Dulane: Early Christian. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1996: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 85-6, No. 305. Wordwell, Bray

Meenan, R. 1996a Further archaeological testing at Dulane graveyard, Kells, Co. Meath. Licence No. 96E0118. Unpublished report, Author

Meenan, R. 1996 Archaeological assessment of a site at Dulane, Co. Meath. Licence No. 96E0118. Unpublished report, Author