Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Dardistown (duleek Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dardistown (duleek Upper By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65796, -6.31015
- SMR number
- ME027-046----
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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
Located on a gentle S-facing slope, with a small W-E stream c. 180m to the S. Archaeological monitoring (01E0090) of topsoil removal identified a single pit which was subsequently excavated (01E0548). It was circular (diam. 0.64m; D 0.12m) with a single fill of brown sandy clay that had some stone inclusions and occasional inclusions of heat-shattered stone and charcoal flecks. A C14 date of 3710 +- 40 BP (Cal. BC 1970-210) was obtained from a sample. (Russell 2001, 12-13)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 9 April, 2019
References
Russell, I. 2001 Northern Motorway Road Project Contract 7, Gormanstown – Monasterboice. Site: Dardistown 1, Licence No. 01E0548. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services
Russell, I. 2003 No. 957. Dardistown 1. Pit. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 294. Bray, Wordwell
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