1969:006 - EMAIN MACHA (Navan Fort), Armagh

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Armagh Site name: EMAIN MACHA (Navan Fort)

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number:

Author: D. M. Waterman, Archaeological Survey

Site type: Hillfort

Period/Dating: Multi-period

ITM: E 684644m, N 845214m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.348582, -6.698049

Excavation continued of the multi-period highly complex occupation under the mound at Navan Fort. The main central post of the final phase was discovered this year. Features such as small corrals associated with the huts of earlier phases were also excavated. Finds were, in the main, occasional sherds of coarse ware.