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Metalworking site

Alexander Reid, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Metalworking site, Alexander Reid, 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
Alexander Reid
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.64500, -6.64996
SMR number
ME025-096008-

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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

A single instance of metal-working was evident in a furnace pit cut into the upper fill of the re-cut E annexe ditch at a point just SE of the rath. Rake-out to the W indicates that the ditch was at least partially open when it was in operation. The shape of the furnace was uncertain as it had been truncated by a post-medieval ditch to the E and by a modern services trench to the W but it was round-bottomed and oriented E-W. A line of stones to the N which included a quernstone fragment was probably a wind-break. A fragment of a crucible and two possible anvil stones were recovered from the vicinity. Small quantities of slag were found in other ditch contexts. (McGlade 2017, vol. 1, 21-22; 96-7)

See the attached plan for location from McGlade (2017, vol. 1, P 29) _01 location:
Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 19 April, 2023

McGlade, S. 2017 Preliminary Excavation Report, Site D, Alexander Reid, Navan. Licence: 16E0449. Unpublished report, 2 vols Archaeology Plan

Nearby in the register

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

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