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Excavation - miscellaneous

Grange (Navan Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Grange, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Grange (Navan Lower By.)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.67127, -6.77256
SMR number
ME024-037----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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 in a gently undulating landscape. Archaeological testing (04E0925) by J. Roynane (2005) at Testing Area 2 of Contract 4 of the M3 motorway identified archaeological material (excavations.ie 2004:1245) that was excavated (E003121) by A. Kelly (2010) as Grange 5 in November 2006 (excavations.ie 2007:1324) when just over 850 square metres were opened. Five pits, two possible posthloles and two curving ditches were recorded. Three pits (dims 0.82m x 0.52m; D 0.27m to 1.31m x 1.07m; D 0.13m) had similar fills of charcoal-rich silts, and a fragment of ash charcoal from one provided a C14 date of 2335-2148 cal. BC (UBA 11100), placing them in the Early Bronze Age. Two pits (dims 1m x 0.84m; D 0.12m: 0.82m x 0.76m; D 0.32m) with fire-reddened bases and fills of red and yellow burnt clays with heat-shattered stones and charcoal were 4m apart and were probably corn-drying kilns. Barley and oats were dominant in the environmental samples from these and a barley grain returned a C14 date of 424-541 cal. AD (UBA 11099) from one of them. A ditch (L 35.5m plus; Wth 0.7m; D 0.35m) ran N-S, parallel with a mapped field bank c. 5m to the E and curved W across the S part of the excavated area before petering out. Another ditch (L 11.75m plus; Wth 0.9m; D 0.38m) met it on the curve and extended away to the SE. Each ditch had a single layer of silty clay, but the only artefact recovered was a flint flake, undoubtedly redeposited, and the ditches remain undated. (Kelly 2010, 5-8)

See the attached site plan from Kelly (2010, fig. 5)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 25 March 2022

References

Roynane, J. 2005 M3 Clonee-North of Kells; Contract 4, Navan - Kells and Kells Bypass. Report on Archaeological Assessment at Testing Area 2 in Grange, County Meath. Licence: 04E0925. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy

Kelly, A. 2010 M3 Clonee – North of Kells, Contract 4, Navan to Kells and Kells Bypass. Final Report on Archaeological Excavation of Grange 5, Co. Meath. Licence: E003121. Unpublished report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy

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