Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Ferrans, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ferrans
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42666, -6.70156
- SMR number
- ME049-032----
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
Situated in a low-lying, gently undulating landscape. Archaeological testing (06E1231) by A. Collins in advance of a realignment of the R158 road identified archaeological deposits (Collins 2008, 19) that were excavated (07E0162) as Site 12 by E. Larsson (excavations.ie 2007:1311). It proved to be three pits and four spreads of silty sands with occasional inclusions of burnt stone. The pits (dims 1.1m x 0.6m; D 0.15: 0.89m x 0.83m; D 0.16m: 0.52m x 0.46m; D 0.35m) were filled with silty sands. A sample of willow charcoal from one of the pits produced a C14 date of 2470-2380 cal. BC while a sample of ash charcoal from another pit yielded a date of 50 BC – 80 cal. AD. The stratigraphy may be disturbed as the only artefact recovered was a sherd of glazed pottery of twelfth to thirteenth century date from one of the smaller spreads of silt. (Larsson 2009)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 29 June 2021
References
Collins, A. 2008 Archaeological Testing Report. R158 Summerhill to Kilcock Road Realignment in County Meath. Licence: 06E1231. Unpublished report, CRDS
Larsson, E. 2009 R158 Realignment Scheme, Summerhill to Kilcock. Final Report, Site 12 Ferrans. Licence: 07E0162. Unpublished report, CRDS
Larsson, E. 2009 R158 Realignment Scheme, Summerhill to Kilcock. Final Report, Site 13 Ferrans. Licence: 07E0161. Unpublished report, CRDS
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.