Habitation site

The National Monuments Service's description

An area outside the outer enclosure of the burial ground at S was left outside the rectangular enclosure of Phase 3 but gullies on its perimeter ensured that it would remain dry. Habitation is indicted by the gullies, pits and hearths. The pits (max. dims 2.5m x 1.7m; D 0.5m) contained deposits of ash and a sample of oats yielded a C14 date of 660-870 cal. AD. Up to four hearths were recognised and four smaller pits, but only one posthole was present together with some metaled surfaces. Many of the features were truncated by the central millrace and were either directly beneath ploughsoil or some hillwash soils, which are the result of soilcreep from the top of the ridge. However, it might also have had some habitation during Phase 2. (Seaver 2009, vol. 1, 49-50, 66-67, 75-7)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 20 December 2021

References

Seaver, M. 2009 N2 Finglas-Ashbourne Road Scheme Report on Archaeological Excavation of Site 21, Raystown, County Meath. Licence: 03E1229. Unpublished Final report, vol. 1, text. CRDS