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This is a final report of an archaeological excavation at Cookstown Great 1 which was located on the route of the M3 Navan–Kells & Kells Bypass (Archaeological Services Contract 4) of the M3 Clonee–North of Kells Motorway Scheme, County Meath. The excavation was carried out by Patricia Lynch of Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd on behalf of Meath County Council and the National Roads Authority. The work was carried out under Ministerial Direction No. A029/019 and National Monuments Service (NMS) Excavation Registration No. E3137 which were received from the DoEHLG in consultation with the National Museum of Ireland. The fieldwork took place between 25 September – 21 November 2006. A total area of 948m2 was opened around Cookstown Great 1 to reveal the archaeological features that were identified at the site during archaeological testing under licence 04E0918. Two phases of activity were identified at Cookstown Great 1. Phase 1, and the focus of the site, comprised a spread of charcoal rich soil C3 (9m x 3.2m x 0.2m) containing heat affected stones and early Neolithic pottery. Four pits and a pit/hearth were also excavated at the site and one of these pits (C27) was dated to the late Bronze Age / early Iron Age (768–521 BC) (Phase 2). The remainder of the pits and the hearth were undated and could belong to either phase. Alder (Alnus sp.), Prunus and oak (Quercus sp.) charcoal were identified from samples retrieved from the site and the results were dominated by oak. It is likely that the site was located close to oak woodlands, possibly with a river, stream or wetlands nearby (O’Donnell, Appendix 2.3). The early Neolithic and late Bronze Age / early Iron Age features identified at Cookstown Great 1 are an important addition to the increasingly widespread corpus of prehistoric activity in this part of Co. Meath which includes the extensive prehistoric landscape of the Kilmainham/Cookstown Great complex c. 1km to the north-west.