Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit
Chapelbride, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Chapelbride
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71950, -6.93567
- SMR number
- ME016-074----
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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
Situated on a gentle W-facing slope. Archaeological centre-line testing (04E1054) by D. Bayley (2005) at Testing Area 3 of Contract 5 of the M3 motorway (excavations.ie 2004:1223) identified archaeological material that was fully resolved (E003172) by E. Danaher in October 2006 as Chapelbride 1 (excavations.ie 2006:1527). Two small pits were c. 35m apart. The W pit (diam. 0.69-0.73m; D 0.11m) was filled with a black clay with pockets of burnt clay and charcoal flecks which produced a C14 date of 389-202 cal. BC (Beta 247163) from a sample of charred oak. The E pit (diam. 0.57-0.68m; D 0.11m) had a fill of reddish brown burnt clay and black clay with frequent charcoal flecks, hammerscale and a small amount of slag. Two radiocarbon dates (401-206 cal. BC; 386-183 cal. BC) derived from charred oak samples (Beta 247164, 247165) are also in the Early Iron Age. An E-W ditch (Wth 2.4m) just S of the E pit had a stony fill and extended off to the E (L 11.3m plus) and produced two sherds of post-medieval pottery. (Danaher and Ginn 2008)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 4 March 2022
References
Danaher, E. and V. Ginn 2008 M3 Clonee – North of Kells, Contract 5, Kells to North of Kells, Final Report on the Archaeological Excavation of Chapelbride 1, Co. Meath. Licence: E003172. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services
Bayley, D. 2005 M3 Navan – North of Kills, Contract 5, Kells to North of Kells. Report on Archaeological Assessment at Testing Area 3 in Chapelbride, County Meath. Licence: 04E1054. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy
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