County: Louth Site name: NAVAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Hilary Opie
Site type: Habitation site
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 706028m, N 810509m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.032866, -6.381482
Excavations were carried out here between 26th October and 26th November prior to road development.
Excavations revealed evidence of Early Bronze Age activity in the form of a series of charcoal spreads containing Bronze Age "Food Vessel" pottery and pieces of worked flint. A series of stakeholes were found in association with the charcoal spreads. These formed two roughly parallel lines running east-west which converged slightly towards their western end. However, it is unclear what type of structure or feature they may have formed as modern activity, involving the blasting and burying of large stones to clear the field for farming, was also evident and this may have disturbed some of the Bronze Age activity on the site. In particular, it would appear it truncated these two lines of stakeholes. However, it would appear that this was an area of domestic habitation rather than a site of ritual/burial significance.
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