Church Fields, Ashbourne

Area

6,434 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres)

Buildings

1 building touches it, 23 m² on the ground

Zoning

G1 F1 - Open Space (Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027) The objective
M2 B1 - Commercial Town or Village Centre (Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027) The objective
R1 A2 - New Residential (Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027) The objective
R2 A1 - Existing Residential (Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027) The objective

Townland

Killegland

Planning applications on this parcel

• 18 Aug 2026N/a

  the construction of 68 no. ”Age Friendly” (Independent living for over 55’s) residential units to include: Block A – 4 storey apartment block consisting of a total of 35 units comprising 17No 1 bedroom units , 18No 2 bedroom units, ESB Switch room, plant room , laundry room , storage room, secure bicycle storage and communal bin store. Block B – 5 Storey apartment block consisting of a total of 33 units comprising 13No 1 bedroom units, 20No 2 bedroom units, Communal day room , kitchen, management office, storage room, plant room , secure bicycle storage, communal bin store, community care room , GP on-site consultation room and for the demolition of existing two storey dwelling house and all associated site works to include for permission for alterations to existing roadside boundary and associated footpath to accommodate the subject development

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2661041

• 21 Feb 2025Refused

  the construction of 68 no. ”Age Friendly” (Independent living for over 55’s) residential units to include: Block A – 4 Storey apartment block consisting of a total of 35 units comprising 16 No. 1-bedroom units, 19 No. 2-bedroom units, ESB Switch room, plant room, laundry room, storage room and communal bin store. Block B – 5 Storey apartment block consisting of a total of 33 units comprising 9 No. 1-bedroom units, 20 No. 2-bedroom units, 4 No. studio-units, communal day room, kitchen, management office, storage room, plant room, secure bicycle room, communal bin store, community care room, GP consultation room and for the demolition of existing two storey dwelling house and all associated site works to include for permission for alterations to existing roadside boundary and associated footpath to accommodate the subject development. Signifiant further information/revised plans submitted on this application.

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2560170

• 23 Dec 2020Conditional

  (a) the retention of a single storey extension to the rear of the existing preschool building with reference to the previously approved planning permission (reg ref 98/891) (b) extension of hours of operation to 9am-3.30pm (c) change of preschool accommodation from 17 to 22 children and (d) all associated site works at this site, Naoinra Bruach na hAbhann, Castle Street, Ashbourne, Co Meath

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA202099

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 12 recorded monuments.

• ME045-005 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a slight bluff on the flood-plain of the Broad Meadow River with a W-E section of the stream c. 30m to the N, and Killegland parish church (ME045-004----) is c. 340m to the S. The castle is at a ford (ME045-005002-) of the river, described as ‘stepping stones’ on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The castle is thought to have been built by a member of the Walter Wafre family who may have held Killegland from the early thirteenth century. The church had been granted to the Augustinian abbey of St. Thomas’ (DU018-020051-) by Hugh de Lacy, and this was endorsed in later grants up to the early thirteenth century (Gilbert 1889, 8, 11, 26, 45-6), one of which, probably from the 1190s, mentions a mill and fish stocks. The church was still in the possession of St Thomas’ at its suppression in in 1540 (White 1943, 36). The castle is thought to have been built by a member of the Wafre or Wafer family. In 1427 the castle and manor of the Wafres passed to Patrick Segrave through marriage with the heiress Mary Wafre. When he died, or was murdered, in 1453 his son Richard inherited Killegland and Baltrasna after a struggle. Richard died in 1494 and the property passed to his son John (ob. 1532). Then John’s younger son, Richard, held the property until his death in 1543. Richard married firstly Elizabeth Dowdall but his second wife, Jannet Eustace, held land in Cabragh, Co. Dublin, and this established a second branch of the family there. The Killegland property passed to Richard and Elizabeth’s son Patrick (ob. 1571) who was married to a Joan Begge. Their only son Richard (ob. 1598) was reckoned one of the great gentlemen of the county, by which Dublin is probably intended. This Richard was also married twice, but his son Patrick (born 1577) from his first marriage to Beale Stokes, inherited Killegland. Richard had been a lawyer, as was Patrick who was briefly imprisoned and dismissed from the Exchequer in 1603 for illegal land deals (plus ca change). Patrick was also married twice, firstly to Mary, a daughter of Sir Robert Dillon of Riverstown (ME031-031001-), which ended in divorce. However, his son Richard from this union having pre-deceased his father in 1598, the Killegland property passed to Richard’s son Patrick when his grandfather died in 1633. This younger Patrick was Sheriff of Meath in 1627 and, as a prominent Catholic, he took part in the 1641 rebellion. He fled abroad after the Battle of Kilsallaghan in 1642, and Killegland castle was then taken by Royalists (Gilbert 1973, 2, 281-3). Patrick’s son, Luke, failed to regain possession of any of his father’s property, which was held by Henry Cromwell, the fourth son of Oliver and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1657-59, during the Commonwealth. At the Restoration in 1660 Killegland was granted to the King’s younger brother, the Duke of York and the future King James II. After the Battle of the Boyne Killegland was owned by a Thomas Carter. (Segrave and Sadlier 1936, 76-84, 202-08, 220-28; Frazer 2008, 10-12) According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) the small parish and town of Killeglan consisted of 360 acres owned by Patrick Segrave of Killeglan in 1640, and on the premises were ‘a castle, a stone house with outhouses, a church, a mill and divers cabins’ (Simington 1940, 98). Patrick also owned 280 acres at Ballybin and had a share in land at Milltown and Harlockstown (ibid. 100, 102). The castle is depicted as a tower with a chimney stack, probably representing a tower house, on the S side of the W-E Broad Meadow River on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map of Ratoath, and as a small square feature (dims c. 5m x c. 5m) described as ‘Killegland Castle’ on the 1836 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. In 1990 it was described (SMR file) as a circular, grass-covered mound (diam. c. 16m; H 0.5m at S to c. 2.5m at N) with a broad hollow (Wth c. 5m; D 0.5m) on the E side curving around to the N side of the mound as a berm, which probably represents quarrying. There was no visible evidence of a masonry structure. Archaeological testing (02E0708) by W. O. Frazer identified a double-faced wall (Wth 2m) with a cobbled surface on its E side that is probably the SW wall of the castle (O’Donovan and Frazer 2002, 14). Further testing (05E0423) by W. O. Frazer under the road just S of the castle site produced evidence of a drainage channel running N to the river W of the castle, a metaled area at the castle and a revetment E of it, which suggests that the castle may have had an enclosure (Kavanagh 2007, 11-13). Further archaeological testing (17E0335) by J. Stirland (2017) discovered that a great deal of disturbance had occurred in the vicinity since 2002 with the introduction of soil including builders’ waste (excavations.ie 2019:686). However, a demolition layer of the castle in the form of mortar and slates was found at several places overlying paved or cobbled surfaces. In addition fragments of mortared rubble-core faced walls (Wth 0.8-1m) were encountered at various points, and their distribution suggests that they may have been from a rectangular enclosure or bawn (dims c. 20m NE-SW; c. 15m NE-SW) around the castle. What might be the base of a protruding rectangular tower at the N angle was partially uncovered. Archaeological testing (05E0423) by W. O. Frazer (2005) in Area C of a road-improvement scheme and later excavation by J. Kavanagh with the same licence just to the SW of the castle recorded a number of large pits (diam. 2.5-4.2m; D 0.35-1.1m) that were filled with limestone from its construction. One pit had an oxidized base from the production of lime (excavations.ie 2005:1124; 2006:1495). See the attached image of Killegland Castle from the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map (N at bottom), courtesy of the National Library of Ireland The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 10 July 2007 revision: 13 July 2013; amended: 13 December 2021

• ME045-005001 Bawn
  Description

  Situated on a slight bluff on the flood-plain of the Broad Meadow River with a W-E section of it c. 30m to the N, and Killegland parish church (ME045-004----) is c. 340m to the S. The castle is at a ford (ME045-005002-) of the river, described as ‘stepping stones’ on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Archaeological testing (02E0708) by W. O. Frazer identified a double-faced wall (Wth 2m) with a cobbled surface on its E side that is probably the SW wall of the castle (O’Donovan and Frazer 2002, 14). A bawn is not mentioned in any of the sources but further testing (17E0335) by J. Stirland discovered a demolition layer of the castle in the form of mortar and slates found at several places overlying paved or cobbled surfaces. In addition fragments of mortared rubble-core faced walls (Wth 0.8-1m) were encountered at various points and their distribution suggests that they may have been from a rectangular enclosure or bawn (dims c. 20m NE-SW; c. 15m NW-SE) around the castle. What might be the base of a protruding rectangular tower at the N angle was partially uncovered. (Stirland 2017) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 December 2021 O’Donovan, E. and Frazer, W. O. 2002 Phase II – Archaeological Assessment Ashbourne Town Centre Development, Killegland, Co. Meath. Licence: 02E0708. Unpublished report, Margaret Gowen & Co.

• ME045-005002 Ford
  Description

  Located in the valley of the meandering W-E Broad Meadow River, on a SW-NE portion of the stream and c. 40m NW of Killegland castle (ME045-005----). The castle would have been located here to overlook the crossing point of the river, which is depicted on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a narrow causeway and described as ‘Stepping stones’. Archaeological testing (03E1902) by F. O’Carroll for a sewer pipe at the river crossing identified a layer of stone cobbling (Wth 6m plus; T 0.1m) beneath silt and modern backfill (excavations.ie 2003:1347). The cobbling was built around larger boulders embedded in the subsoil and there were fifteen contexts above the cobbling. The bases of two rough stone piers were found on the cobbling on the S side of the river, and these would constrict access to the ford. Evidence of the cobbling was also found on the N bank of the river but its full extent in every direction was not revealed, although a SW edge might be represented by a line of boulders. Finds were few but included a flint scraper, what is probably a musket ball, a clay pipe stem and modern material, but it is thought that the cobbling is medieval and related to the use of the castle. (O’Carroll 2004) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 December 2021 O’Carroll, F. 2004 Archaeological assessment in advance of the development of the proposed Ashbourne Sewerage Scheme, Ashbourne, Co. Meath. Licence No. 03E1902. Unpublished report, CRDS

• ME045-041 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope down to the W-E Broad Meadow River and partly incorporated into a field bank which is c. 15-50m from the stream. A mill and related works pertaining to fish are recorded at Killegland in land grants from the late twelfth to the early thirteenth century (Gilbert 1889, 45-6, 50). The messauge of Hugo the tenant miller is also mentioned in these documents. According to the Civil Survey (1654) a mill was still on the property in 1641 (Simington 1940, 98). A topographical survey identified the mil-race (visible L 100m plus), and three depressions between it and the stream at its W end are likely to be the fish-ponds (ME045-041001-). Archaeological testing (02E1728) by W. Frazer confirmed the mill-race as a straight-sided ditch (Wth 3-3.4m; max. D 1.5m at S), with the upcast forming a low earthen bank (Wth of base 4.05m; H 0.3m) on its S side (excavations.ie 2003:1346). There is a shallow drainage ditch (Wth of top c. 2m; D 0.3m) on the S side of this bank. The primary fill of the shallow ditch and the S side of the bank were covered by a dense silt layer (D 0.15m), indicating at least one serious inundation from the river. The mill-race was not stone-lined and therefore this section was probably not close to the mill house, although the enclosed messauge (ME045-072----) on the N side at the E edge of the development area may have been the miller’s house. Medieval pottery was recovered from the primary silts at the W end of the mill-race but most of the pottery recovered is post-medieval, indicating that it was open into the eighteenth century. The mill-race was also sampled (04E1213) by Frazer (excavations.ie 2004:1167) at the centre of the Killegland settlement (ME045-071----) confirming these findings (Frazer 2007, 47-50). Further E the fill of the mill-race contained a stone-filled drain but the silt flooding layer covered the outer ditch and the S face of the bank. (Frazer 2004; 2007) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 December, 2021

• ME045-041001 Fish-pond
  Description

  Located on a gentle S-facing slope on the N bank of the Broad Meadow River and c. 15m from the stream. The church at Killegland (ME045-004----) had been granted to the Augustinian abbey of St. Thomas’ (DU018-020051-) by Hugh de Lacy, and this was endorsed in later grants up to the early thirteenth century (Gilbert 1889, 8, 11, 26, 45-6), one of which, probably from the 1190s, mentions a mill and fish stocks. The ponds are depicted on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map. A topographical survey identified three connected hollows in an ENE-WSW line this area. At the W end a rectangular depression (dims c. 10m x c. 10m) is fed by a broad leat (Wth c. 5m) from the river approaching from the SW. About 5m to the E and fed by a leat from the W pond is a larger rectangular pond (dims c. 15m x c. 15m) that merges into the third pond (dims c. 45m ENE-WSW; c. 15m NNW-SSE), which connects with the stream again. (Frazer 2007, fig. 7) See the attached plan from Frazer (2007, fig. 7) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 December 2021

• ME045-071 Settlement cluster
  Description

  Situated on a bluff on the N bank of the Broad Meadow River with a W-E section of it c. 30m S of the settlement. The castle of Killegland (ME045-005----) is on the S bank commanding a ford (ME045-005002-) while the church (ME045-004----) was further south. The ford communicated with the N bank where a millrace (ME045—041----) and houses were situated. The Wafre family may have held Killegland from the early thirteenth century when Walter Wafre endorsed the grant of the church to St Thomas’ Augustinian abbey (DU018-020051-) (Gilbert 1889, 50). St Thomas’ still held the church at the abbey’s suppression in in 1540 (White 1943, 36). The Wafre estate passed through marriage to the Segrave family in the early fifteenth century. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) the small parish of Killeglan consisted of 360 acres owned by Patrick Segrave of Killeglan in 1640, and on the premises were ‘a castle, a stone house with outhouses, a church, a mill and divers cabins’ (Simington 1940, 98). After the disturbed conditions of the 1640s and 1650s the population was reduced to 38 adults in 1659 (Pender 1938, 486) and it was probably abandoned by the end of the century. By the nineteenth century the village of Ashbourne, named after Frederick Bourne who built the new line road (N 2) from Finglas to Ashbourne, became a post-town on the coach-road to Slane and Derry (Lewis 1839, 1, 79). The new village was centred on Frederick Street, around the new line servicing the coaches, which is c. 350m E of the castle. Archaeological excavations have identified the ford (ME045-005002-) near Killegland castle (ME045-005----) and the mill-race (ME045—041----) on the N bank of the stream. Another excavation (04E1213) by W. O. Frazer recorded poor housing along the course of the mill-race that was occupied from the late sixteenth century to the end of the seventeenth, forming a small community on the N bank of the river. Five houses, an oven and a kiln from this community were identified and partially excavated. Much of the walls of the structures had been robbed of stone, and the settlement is likely to have extended further W. The houses are some of the ‘diverse cottages’ recorded in the Civil Survey (1654) and they were abandoned c. 1700 based on coin evidence. The settlement is located on a S-facing slope at the W end of the recorded mill-race and it overlooked the medieval fishponds that were probably defunct by this time and the river. The largest house (1) is just S of the mill-race and it is on level ground that had been built up prior to its construction. About 15m E of the large house are three adjacent houses (3-5) placed c. 6-7m from each other, with a corn-drying kiln abutting the E wall of the most easterly. House 2 is on the N side of the mill-race from House 3, with the oven c. 15m to its NW. A drainage ditch (Wth 1.47m; D 0.56m) separates the houses on the S from the mill-race, and the rectangular enclosure (ME045-072----) with its substantial house is c. 60m further E on the N side of the mill-race, although this had been abandoned by the fifteenth century and the area was being used for cultivation. The houses have unmortared stone wall bases but the upper walls would have been of clay or turf with wooden frames. They have only one storey, perhaps with lofts, and the roofs were thatched and had smoke-holes rather than chimneys in many cases. The clay floors were often damp-proofed by in situ burning prior to use. The houses are only partially excavated and therefore are not fully resolved, but it was possible to elucidate a lot about their use and to preserve them in situ beneath introduced soils and the new development. Most of the features in this core area (dims c. 70m E-W; c. 25m N-S) of the settlement were in use from the late 16th century to c. 1700 AD, based largely on the artefacts recovered including coins dating 1682-1696 for the abandonment. The large house (int. dims 13.85-14.84 x 5.8-6.9m) has a metaled or cobbled area (dims 17.5m x 2.75m; T 0.25m) outside the slightly off-centre doorway in the S wall and cobbling also abuts the NW corner and the E wall. Its E end is separated off as what might be a forge and has its own doorway in the N wall. This E end of the building has a stone footing for a fireplace and a large adjacent pit may have served as plunging pit for heated metals (Frazer 2007, 17-34, 108-111) Houses 2 (int. dims c. 4.8m N-S; c. 3m E-W) on the N side of the mill-race has an external drain at N and E that diverted water around it to the mill-race. A metaled area S of the house was levelled up and became the foundation of an E-W extension (int. dims 7m plus E-W; c. 3m N-S). (ibid. 36-47, 111-12) Houses 3 (int. dims 3.5m plus x c. 4m ) and 4 (int. dims 6.35m x 4.3m) are close neighbours and are of similar construction with drystone or clay-bonded and double-faced bases to the walls and timber-framed clay walls above and thatched roofs. Both have drains and were probably dwellings (ibid. 36-47, 112-13). In addition House 4 has a central threshold in its W wall, a cobbled floor and a hearth against the E wall which had a smoke hood supported on short projecting walls. Externally, two metaled terraces with kerbed edges extended down the slope to the S from the houses. Three intercut pits in the space between houses 4 and 3 appear to run under their walls and probably pre-date the construction of these houses. (ibid. 50-67; 113-14) House 5 (int. dims 7.3m E-W; c. 5.5m N-S) was on the S side of the mill-race at the E end of the excavated area. An external cobbled surface at S extends beneath its S wall. It might have a S-facing threshold with a porch, and an internal U-shaped foundation could be the support of a smoke-hood, in which case it might have a lobby entrance. It also has a drain exiting under the NE corner. The corn-drying kiln is immediately E of House 5 and utilised its E wall as part of the structure, suggesting that the house was defunct when it was in use. Only elements of the flue and part of the kiln floor with deposits of used fuel and kiln waste survive. (ibid. 67-73; 114-15) The 16th to 17th century oven is a large circular earth-cut pit (diam. 3.2m; D 1m) with a flue (L 5m) extending E, and samples indicate that it was used for cooking and baking. It was probably used commonly by the community, and two phases were evident, the first with three fills resulting from two separate firings. The second phase consists of an E-W trench that truncated the flue and may represent a robber trench. (ibid. 35-6, 107) The houses were constructed in the late sixteenth century, based on artefacts, although the pottery, including Leinster cooking ware and Dublin type wares, is generally medieval in character. (Frazer 2007) See the attached plans from Frazer (2007) _1 general plan (fig. 9) _2 House 1 (fig. 10) _3 House 2 (fig. 12) _4 Houses 3 & 4 (fig. 13) _5 House 5 (fig. 14) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 December 2021

• ME045-072 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on slight S-facing slope c. 50m from the N bank of a W-E canalised section of the Broad Meadow River, and immediately on the N side of the mill-race (ME045-041----) at the E extremity of its recorded extent. Archaeological excavation (04E1252) by W. Frazer recorded a rectangular enclosure (dims c. 20m N-S; c. 20m E-W) defined by the mill-race at S and by open ditches at W (Wth c. 1.6-2m; D c. 1m) and N (excavation.ie 2004:1167). It was an open yard with a roughly metaled surface that was established at the same time as the mill-race, but it is cut by the defining drains at N and W. It was utilised in two successive phases. Little remained of two or three buildings from the first phase but more substantial remains of the second phase of Structure 3 (dims 11m N-S; 5.5m E-W) survived. This was a house with a drystone base to the walls and clay upper walls, and it probably had a thatched roof. The enclosure was occupied in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, and after its abandonment it was robbed of stone and was cut by lazy bed cultivation ridges in the seventeenth century when Killegland settlement (ME045-071----) further to the W was occupied. Over 30 artefacts and c. 600 sherds of pottery were recovered, including an almost complete Leinster cooking ware jar. (Frazer 2005) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 December 2021

• ME045-073 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated at the crest of a N-facing slope down to a canalised W-E section of the Broad Meadow River which is c. 30m to the N. Archaeological testing and excavation (02E0708) by W. Frazer revealed a ring-ditch and associated features (excavation.ie 2004:1167). The ring-ditch is a circular area (int. diam. 7m; ext. diam. 10.35m) defined by a U-shaped fosse (Wth of top 1.5-1.85m; max. D 0.54m) which contained some flints and pottery sherds where it was sampled. There was no entrance through the fosse but it did cut some earlier pits. The ditch had been deliberately filled in, perhaps with material from a central mound, but no burial or cremated remains were found in the interior. However, 11m to the SE was a single pit burial (dims 0.49m x 0.42; D 0.15m) with some fragments of burnt human bone, which produced a C14 date of 1500-1260 cal. BC. After its abandonment the ring-ditch was used for metalworking (ME045-073001-), but much of the ring-ditch is preserved beneath the playground developed over the area. (Frazer 2008) See the attached plan from Frazer (2008, fig. 8) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 December 2021

• ME045-073001 Metalworking site
  Description

  Situated at the crest of a N-facing slope down to a canalised W-E section of the Broad Meadow River which is c. 30m to the N. Archaeological testing and excavation (02E0708) by W. Frazer revealed a ring-ditch (ME045-073----) and associated features (excavation.ie 2004:1167). After the abandonment of the ring-ditch a hearth (dims 1.2m x 0.63m; D 0.2m) and a small pit for smelting were built in the interior, the latter producing a C14 date of cal. BC 180-140 cal. AD. A second campfire (dims 0.65m x 0.61m; D 0.16m) which was cut into the upper fill of the ring-ditch fosse at SE produced a C14 date of 230-410 cal. AD. Four shallow pits (dims 0.7m x 0.5m; D 0.07 to 0.93 x 0.88m; D 0.12m) with burnt grain that are placed in an E-W line c. 6m apart and c. 5m S of the ring-ditch at the closest point are high medieval in date and yielded a C14 date of 1260-1400 cal. AD (55% probability). These were overlain and cut by later cultivation ridges, and a N-S drainage ditch (Wth of top 2.7-2.9m; D 0.75m) that was c. 2m E of the ring-ditch. (Frazer 2008) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 December 2021

• ME045-076001 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise at the tip of a low SE-NW spur and with the meandering W-E Broad Meadow River c. 150m to the W and N. Archaeological testing (05E1321) by S. Halliday (2007) in advance of a housing development identified numerous archaeological features some of which were investigated under the original licence (excavations.ie 2006:1496), but others, numbered Sites I and III, were resolved (excavations.ie 2006:1499) by J. Kavanagh (Kavanagh and Quine 2007) under a different licence (06E0871). Site I consists of two ring-ditches, and they might survive partially in a green area. Ring-ditch A is a circular area (int. diam. 18.26m; ext. diam. 22.5m) defined by a U-shaped ditch or fosse (max. Wth 1.52m; D c. 0.5m) that has an uncut causeway (Wth 5.25m) at S. The ditch was cut at SE by the ditch of the second ring-ditch (ME045-076002-), which is centered further SE, but the ditch of ring-ditch A has a primary layer of sterile brown clay with some silt. One sherd of pottery, flint debitage, and a possible hammer stone were recovered from it. This layer was overlain by a charcoal-rich layer only on the N side. The single central pit (diam. 0.67m; D 0.22m) was filled with clay that had minimal charcoal but no bone. Four pits (dims 1.5-1.8m; D 0.25m) filled with charcoal-rich silty clay and traces of oxidized clay were 13-20m distant from the ring-ditches but produced no artefacts. (Kavanagh and Quine 2007) See the attached plan from Kavanagh and Quine (2007, fig. 5) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 December 2021

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