1997:007 - HAUGHEY'S FORT, Tray, Armagh

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Armagh Site name: HAUGHEY'S FORT, Tray

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 12:13 Licence number:

Author: Jim Mallory, Dept of Archaeology, School of Geosciences, Queen's University Belfast

Site type: Ceremonial enclosure

Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)

ITM: E 683433m, N 845302m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.349570, -6.716638

A further season of fieldwork was carried out at this site as part of an ongoing research project.

Sixty stake-holes formed a linear structure at the entrance to the inner ditch of the complex. The outer ditch was located and found to be 1.8m deep. A charcoal layer was found near the top of the outer ditch fill and dozens of sherds of Late Bronze Age pottery were recovered.