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Excavation - miscellaneous

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

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Batterstown, 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
Batterstown (Navan Lower By.)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.67045, -6.67577
SMR number
ME025-060----

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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 monitoring (01E0534) by C. Mullins (2002) of the pipe-laying for the Clonmagadden Water Scheme (L c. 2.5km) in June – July 2001, identified numerous archaeological features that were barely affected by the scheme (excavations.ie 2001:951). The pipe ran mostly through greenfield areas, and at Site K prehistoric remains were excavated (01E0535) by the same archaeologist in an extended trench (dims 14m E-W; 7m N-S). Four linear features were recorded as well as a substantial ditch (Wth 1.3m; D 0.5m) with what might be a bulbous terminal. The ditch was filled with layers of peat, charcoal and redeposited natural and yielded a well-made flint tanged arrowhead and numerous flint flakes and blades. A second ditch of similar proportions also appeared to expand at one end, and it is clear that extensive remains survive outside the excavated area.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload; 31 March 2023

Mullins, C. 2002 Monitoring Report of the Clonmagadden Sewerage Extension Scheme. Licence: 01E0534. Unpublished report, Byrne, Mullins & Associates

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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