Archaeological excavation report, E3024 Dunboyne 4, County Meath

This site at Dunboyne 4 was excavated by Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd (ACS) as part of the M3 Clonee–North of Kells Motorway Scheme on behalf of Meath County Council NRDO and the NRA. Dunboyne 4 is situated between a trivallate and a D-shaped enclosure with cartographic evidence suggesting that the site may represent a late medieval field system possibly associated with the enclosures. However, the excavation of the site did not produce any evidence for a medieval field system and the ditches and drains which were located formed a modern drainage system. A plethora of postholes was also discovered, some of which appeared to form the remains of possible structures, although the precise form of these was not determinable from the extant evidence, with associated areas of activity. Excavations revealed a clay-lined, keyhole-shaped kiln and several pits, two of which appear to have contained waste material from the kiln. There were no chronologically diagnostic finds from secured contexts, with the exception of two sherds of Middle or Late Bronze Age pottery from one of the postholes.