Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Moathill, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moathill
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65309, -6.70035
- SMR number
- ME025-081004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
One episode of metalworking was noted in the middle of Phase 1 deposits of the major E-W boundary ditch close to the crux with the NNE-SSW boundary (ME025-081----). A pit (diam. c. 0.78m; D 0.13m) had a burnt base with slag and ash in its fill. There was a flat-topped stone (dims 0.25m x 0.18m; T 0.06m) beside it and six stake-holes nearby. A small gully ran SE-NW (L 2m), and all the features except the gully were sealed by a thin layer of charcoal with lenses of slag and sand. A covering layer of charcoal spread over all the features, including the gully. The metalworking took place between Phases 1 and 2 of the E-W boundary ditch. (Giacometti 2007, 45-6)
See the attached plans:_02 of excavated features (from Halliday 2009 fig. 25); _03 Rectangular enclosure and ring-ditches (_04) from Giacometti (2007 figs 6, 10)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 5 April 2023
Giacometti, A. 2007 Site 1. Navan Inner Relief Road. Licence: 06E0274. Final unpublished report, Arch-Tech
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.