Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Habitation site
Fourknocks, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fourknocks
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59821, -6.31764
- SMR number
- ME033-032----
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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
Excavation undertaken in 1982 recovered evidence for habitation in the form of pits, an arc of small post-holes and a charcoal spread. Some of the pits contained Grooved Ware, lithics, charcoal and created bone, while others had varying amounts of flint debitage. The plough-soil yielded an archer's bracer and a range of struck and worked flint and chert including a tanged arrowhead. Radiocarbon dates for the activity range between 4305 ± 45 BP and 2275 ± 30 BP (King 1999, 157). (Moore 1987, no. 384; King 1999)
Revised by: Paul Walsh
Revised date of upload: 16 May 2017
References
Moore, M. 1987 Archaeological inventory of county Meath. Dublin. Stationery Office.
King, H. 1999 Excavations on the Fourknocks ridge, Co. Meath. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 99C 5, 157-98.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.