BOYERSTOWN 3
| Site Name/ Townland | Site Number | Description | Provisional site type | Provisional dating |
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| Boyerstown 3 | 3-15 | Possible enclosure ditches and circular houses | Settlement & field systems | Possible Prehistoric and/or Early Medieval. |
Testing
Two probable roundhouse slot trenches (8m and 6m internal diameter), pits and other features were identified at Boyerstown 3 west of Navan (Section 3) during archaeological testing in 2004.
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| Extract of 1st edition Ordnance Survey map (1836) showing location of site at Boyerstown 3, indicated by the large blue circle on the left-hand side of the image. The road to the south-east of the site runs south-west / north-east to Navan town from Athboy. The location of the building and enclosed settlement or field system identified during testing at Boyerstown 1 is indicated by the small blue circle in the lower half of the image. (OS Sheet 25, Scale 1:10,560. Reproduced by courtesy of the Board of Trinity College Dublin). |
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| Intact upper quern stone recovered during testing at Boyerstown 3. (Courtesy of ACS Ltd.) |
Flint artefacts recovered from topsoil adjacent to one of these probable houses and the shape and size of the structures may suggest a prehistoric date. However finds of flint are not that unusual on early medieval roundhouses.
Geophysical Survey
A magnetometer survey has been carried out at Boyerstown 3, revealing a very large complex of enclosures. The results of the geophysical survey can be seen in the greyscale image below. Both this new geophysical survey and the previous testing indicate that these features are likely to represent sites of different periods, prehistoric and possibly early medieval or later. The complex of anomalies identified include five circular enclosures, a sub-rectangular enclosure network, the remains of several outlying enclosures and a part of a probable field system.
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| Greyscale image showing results of geophysical survey at Boyerstown 3. Features of archaeological potential are visible as dark lines against the lighter grey background |
Please click here for the geophysical survey report.
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Final Report
Please click on the link to access the final archaeological report for Boyerstown 3
| Final Report of Boyerstown 3 | 12.9MB |
